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Poetry Elements
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Poetry Elements
Rhythm Sound Effects Imagery & Sensory
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Writers use many elements to create their poems. These elements include:
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Rhythm Rhythm is the flow of the
beat in a poem. Gives poetry a musical
feel. Can be fast or slow,
depending on mood and subject of poem.
You can measure rhythm in meter, by counting the beats in each line.
(See next two slides for examples.)
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Rhythm Example
The pickety fenceThe pickety fenceGive it a lick it'sThe pickety fenceGive it a lick it'sA clickety fenceGive it a lick it's a lickety fenceGive it a lickGive it a lickGive it a lickWith a rickety stickpicketypicketypicketypick.
The Pickety Fence by David McCord
The rhythm in this poem is fast – to match the speed of the stick striking the fence.
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Rhythm Example
When the night begins to fallAnd the sky begins to glowYou look up and see the tallCity of lights begin to grow –In rows and little golden squaresThe lights come out. First here, then thereBehind the windowpanes as thoughA million billion bees had builtTheir golden hives and honeycombsAbove you in the air.
By Mary Britton Miller
Where Are You Now?
The rhythm in this poem is slow – to match the night gently falling and the lights slowly coming on.
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Poetry Elements
Rhythm
Sound Effects Imagery & Sensory
Details Form
Writers use many elements to create their poems. These elements include:
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Sound Effects
Rhyme Repetition Alliteration Onomatopoeia
Writers love to use interesting sounds in their poems. After all, poems are meant to be heard. These sound devices include:
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Rhyme
Rhymes are words that end with the same sound. (Hat, cat and bat rhyme.)
Rhyming sounds don’t have to be spelled the same way. (Cloud and allowed rhyme.)
Rhyme is the most common sound device in poetry.
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Rhyme Scheme
Poets can choose from a variety of different rhyming patterns.
(See next four slides for examples.)
AABB – lines 1 & 2 rhyme and lines 3 & 4 rhyme
ABAB – lines 1 & 3 rhyme and lines 2 & 4 rhyme
ABBA – lines 1 & 4 rhyme and lines 2 & 3 rhyme
ABCB – lines 2 & 4 rhyme and lines 1 & 3 do not rhyme
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AABB Rhyme Scheme
Snow makes whiteness where it falls.
The bushes look like popcorn balls.
And places where I always play,
Look like somewhere else today.
By Marie Louise Allen
First Snow
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ABAB Rhyme Scheme
I love noodles. Give me oodles.
Make a mound up to the sun.
Noodles are my favorite foodles.
I eat noodles by the ton.
By Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr.
Oodles of Noodles
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ABBA Rhyme Scheme
Let me fetch sticks,
Let me fetch stones,
Throw me your bones,
Teach me your tricks.
By Eleanor Farjeon
From “Bliss”
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ABCB Rhyme Scheme
The alligator chased his tail
Which hit him in the snout;
He nibbled, gobbled, swallowed it,
And turned right inside-out.
by Mary Macdonald
The Alligator
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Repetition
Repetition occurs when poets repeat words, phrases, or lines in a poem.
Creates a pattern. Increases rhythm. Strengthens feelings, ideas
and mood in a poem. (See next slide for example.)
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Repetition Example
Some one tossed a pancake,A buttery, buttery, pancake.Someone tossed a pancakeAnd flipped it up so high,That now I see the pancake,The buttery, buttery pancake,Now I see that pancakeStuck against the sky.
by Sandra Liatsos
The Sun
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Alliteration
Alliteration is the repetition of the first consonant sound in words, as in the nursery rhyme “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”
(See next slide for example.)
The snake slithered silently along the sunny sidewalk.
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Alliteration Example
I jiggled it jaggled it jerked it.
I pushed and pulled and poked it.But –As soon as I stopped,And left it aloneThis tooth came outOn its very own!
by Lee Bennett Hopkins
This Tooth
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Onomatopoeia
Words that represent the actual sound of something are words of onomatopoeia. Dogs “bark,” cats “purr,” thunder “booms,” rain “drips,” and the clock “ticks.”
Appeals to the sense of sound.
(See next slide for example.)
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Onomatopoeia Example
Scrunch, scrunch, scrunch.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
Frozen snow and brittle ice
Make a winter sound that’s nice
Underneath my stamping feet
And the cars along the street.
Scrunch, scrunch, scrunch.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
by Margaret Hillert
Listen
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Poetry Elements
Rhythm Sound Effects Imagery &
Sensory Details Form
Writers use many elements to create their poems. These elements include:
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Sensory Details
Five Senses
Imagery is the use of words to create pictures, or images, in your mind.
Appeals to the five senses: smell, sight, hearing, taste and touch.
Details about smells, sounds, colors, and taste create strong images.
To create vivid images writers use figures of speech.
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Poetry Elements
Rhythm Sound Effects Imagery & Sensory
Details
Form
Writers use many elements to create their poems. These elements include:
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Forms of Poetry
Lyrical Poetry Haiku Songs
Free VerseHumorousNarrative
There are many forms of poetry including :
Lyrical Poetry
Lyrical Poetry typically describes the poet’s innermost feelings and evokes a musical quality in its sounds and rhythms
Common Types of Lyrical Poetry:HaikuCinquainSong Lyrics
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Haiku
A haiku is a Japanese poem with 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. (Total of 17 syllables.)
Does not rhyme. Is about an aspect of
nature or the seasons. Captures a moment in
time.
Little frog among
rain-shaken leaves, are you, too,
splashed with fresh, green paint?
by Gaki
Song Lyrics
Home on the Range
Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day.
Chorus Home, home on the range, Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day.
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Free Verse
A free verse poem does not use rhyme or patterns.
Can vary freely in length of lines, stanzas, and subject.
Revenge
When I find outwho tookthe last cookie
out of the jarand leftme a bunch of
stale old messycrumbs, I'mgoing to take
me a handful and crumbup someone's bed.
By Myra Cohn Livingston
Humorous
A humorous poem is humorous! It can make you laugh, or has witty or silly, nonsensical humor in it. It does not necessarily have to make you laugh, but it's fun to.
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Humorous example Opposite Land
CloudsFallFrom the sky,Along with aBright redCherry pie.
Winter snowflakesMake you sigh,Summer breezesMake you cry.
SnakesFlyMaking sounds.BirdsSlitheringOn the Ground
Hot air's dry,Cold air's wet.
Humans are the animals' pets.
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Narrative
Narrative poems tell stories through verse
Include a setting, character, and plot
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Narrative ExampleThe Broken-Legg’d ManI saw the other day when I went shopping in the store
A man I hadn't ever, ever seen in there before,
A man whose leg was broken and who leaned upon a crutch-
I asked him very kindly if it hurt him very much.
"Not at all!" said the broken-legg'd man.
I ran around behind him for I thought that I would see
The broken leg all bandaged up and bent back at the knee;
But I didn't see the leg at all, there wasn't any there,
So I asked him very kindly if he had it hid somewhere.
"Not at all!" said the broken-legg'd man.
"Then where," I asked him, "is it? Did a tiger bite it off?
Or did you get your foot wet when you had a nasty cough?
Did someone jump down on your leg when it was very new?
Or did you simply cut it off because you wanted to?"
"Not at all!" said the broken-legg'd man.
"What was it then?" I asked him, and this is what he said:
"I crossed a busy crossing when the traffic light was red;
A big black car came whizzing by and knocked me off my feet."
"Of course you looked both ways," I said, "before you crossed the street."
"Not at all!" said the broken-legg'd man.
"They rushed me to the hospital right quickly, "he went on,
"And when I woke in nice white sheets I saw my leg was gone;
That's why you see me walking now on nothing but a crutch."
"I'm glad," said I, "you told me, and I thank you very much!"
"Not at all!" said the broken-legg'd man.
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