poetry

Traditional poetry:

A piece of literature written in meter; verse.

Meter : poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses.

Verse: a single metrical line in a poetic composition; one line of poetry.

Point of View in Poetry

poet speaker

The poet is the author of the poem

the speaker of the poem is the ‘”narrator” of the poem

Poetry form

FORM The appearance of the words on the page

LINE A group of wordstogether on one line of the poem.

STANZA A group of lines arranged together

KINDS OF STANZAS Couplet = a two line stanza

Triplet (Tercet) = a three line stanza

Quatrain = a four line stanza

Quintet = a five line stanza

Sestet (Sextet) = a six line stanza

Septet = a seven line stanza

Octave = an eight line stanza

Simple, four line rhyme

Rhyming a,b,c,d :

Mary had a little lamb

Its fleece was white as snow

And everywhere that mary went

The lamb was sure to go

Simple, four line rhymeRhyming a,a,b,b:

Twinkle, twinkle little star

How I wonder what you are

Up above the world so high

Like a diamond in the sky.

Simple, four line rhyme

Rhyming a,b,a,b :

The rain was like a little mouse,

Quiet, small and gray.

It pattered all around the house

And then it went away.

Simple, four line rhyme

Rhyming a,a,a,a:

Rain, rain, go away

Come again another day

Little children want to play

So rain, rain, go away.

Types of poems

ballad haiku

elegy weather

ode concrete

lyric cinquain

sonnet diamonte

epic Free style

heroic Blank verse

limerick Romance

Ballad

A ballad is a narrative poem, usually set to music; thus, it often is a story told in a song. Any story form may be told as a ballad, such as historical accounts or fairy tales in verse form.

Ballad

The ballad of the Landlord,

which was written by Langston Hughes is an excellent example of a ballad.

cinquain

a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing respectively two, four, six, eight and two syllables.

cinquainExample

Popcorn

Jumpy,Bouncy

white,Yellow and bumpy

jumbly ,Rumbly, Hot and mushy

popcorn.

Haiku

Japanese poem of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables.

Syllables : a unit of spoken language that consist of one or more vowel sounds alone. “sun” is one syllable and “sunshine” is two syllables.

Haiku

Example

The pond I used to

Swim in has hardened now, but

It is mine year round.

Andrea Baccigalupi (age 9)

Free verse poetry

Is a type of poetry that is written without using strict meter, rhythm or rhyme, but is still recognized as poetry.

Free verse poetry

Bring me all of your dreams,You dreamers,Bring me all of yourHeart melodiesThat I may wrap themIn a blue cloud-clothAway from the too-rough fingers of the

world.Langston Hughes.

sonnet

A poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter ( stress is on the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th and 10th syllables of each line), restricted to a definite rhyme scheme.

Shakespeare wrote sonnets.