Poetic Form- how a poem appears on the page

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Poetic Form-how a poem appears on the page

• Lines- may or may not be complete sentences
• If ever I had luck enough to see,
• A parking lot turn back into a tree

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Poetic Form-how a poem appears on the page

• Stanza -A major subdivision in a poem. A stanza
  of two lines is called a couplet a stanza of
  three lines is called a tercet a stanza of four
  lines is called a quatrain.
• The following illustrates the look of a stanza
• I have been one acquainted with the night.
• I have walked out in rain-and back in rain.
• I have outwalked the furthest city light.
• I have looked down the saddest city lane
• I have passed by the watchman on his beat
• And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

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Poetic Form-how a poem appears on the page

• Free Verse -Unrhymed Poetry with lines of varying
  lengths, and containing no specific metrical
  pattern. The poetry of Walt Whitman provides us
  with many examples.
• Consider the following lines from "Song of
  Myself."
• I celebrate myself and sing myself,
• And what I assume you shall assume,
• For every atom belonging to me as good belongs
  to you.
• I loaf and invite my soul,
• I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of
  summer grass.

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Sound - effects used to reinforce meaning of a
poem

• Rhyme-repeated sounds at ends of words
• Fool/school
• Internal Rhyme-rhyming words within a line
• I pity the fool that gets caught skippin
  school
• End Rhyme-rhymes at the ends of lines
• If there is a thing that I do know,
• It is you shouldnt eat the yellow snow!

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Sound - effects used to reinforce meaning of a
poem

• Rhythm the beat of a poem, a pattern of sound
  created by stressed and unstressed syllables
• Meter when the sound pattern is repeated in a
  poem
• Repetition repeating sounds, words, phrases, or
  lines in a poem
• Alliteration repetition of consonant sounds at
  the beginning of words (Leonard loves licking
  leftover lemons)
• Onomatopoeia use of words whose sounds suggest
  their meaning (buzz, pop, click, sizzle,boom)

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Imagery

• Refers to words and phrases that appeal to the 5
  senses
• Used to create a picture in the readers mind
• Reminds reader of a familiar sensation
• Melancholy sadness rains inside me
• The fluffy, luscious, marshmallow clouds flew by

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Figurative Languageusing words to convey a
meaning beyond the ordinary, literal meaning

• Personification- giving human characteristics to
  non-human things
• "Father time Whispering trees Babbling brook"
• Simile a comparison of 2 or more unlike things
  using the words like or as
• Skin was as cold as ice.
• Metaphor - a comparison of 2 or more unlike
  things without using the words like or as
• "My love is a red, red rose."