POETRY
Structure and Word Meaning
Explanation of Main Ideas
Main Ideas
Answers to Questions related to Main Ideas
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Definitions to Vocabulary
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Poetry – Terms and Definitions
Term
Definition
Rhythm
The pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables of
words in a sequence.
Meter
A pattern of rhythm, which we can measure in a line of
poetry.
The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds,
normally at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
The use of words whose sound suggests their meaning.
Free Verse
Poetry, which is not written in a traditional meter, but is still
rhythmical.
Blank Verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Internal
Rhyme
Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end.
Slant Rhyme
Eye rhyme/Half rhyme – Rhymes based on similar spelling
or assonance and consonance.
End-Stopped
Lines
Lines that end with a period, comma, colon, semicolon,
exclamation point, or question mark.
Meter and Iambic Foot
 Iambic Foot – A unit of stressed and unstressed syllables.
 Above – a-BOVE
 Support – sup-PORT
 Hurray – hur-RAY
 Shakespeare: "No longer mourn for me when I am dead.“
 "no LON-ger MOURN for ME when I am DEAD."
Rhythm Example
“My Favorite Things”
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things
Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels
Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into springs
These are a few of my favorite things
When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad
Alliteration - Example
Cipher Connected
By Paul McCann
Careless cars cutting corners create confusion .
Crossing centrelines.
Countless collisions cost coffins.
Collect conscious change.
Copy?
Continue cautiously.
Comply?
Cool .
Onomatopoeia - Examples
buzz, thump, pop, bam, bang,
bing, boom, buzz, crackle, clang,
clatter, creak, ding, dong, boom
fizz, glug, growl, grunt, zoom
howl, hum, knock, whizz, plop
murmur, slap, ping, pong, pop,
rip, roar, smack, snap, splish
squawk, thud, tweet, wham, squish
whoosh, yawn, yelp, squeal, moan
rumble, croak, gurgle and groan
Internal Rhyme - Example
Pink Dominoes - Rudyard Kipling
Jenny and Me were engaged, you see,
On the eve of the Fancy Ball;
So a kiss or two was nothing to you
Or any one else at all.
That is to say, in a casual way,
I slipped my arm around her;
With a kiss or two (which is nothing to you),
And ready to kiss I found her.
Menny would go in a domino -Pretty and pink but warm;
While I attended, clad in a splendid
Austrian uniform.
She turned her head and the name she said
Was certainly not my own;
But ere I could speak, with a smothered
shriek
She fled and left me alone.
Now we had arranged, through notes
exchanged
Early that afternoon,
At Number Four to waltz no more,
But to sit in the dusk and spoon.
Then Jenny came, and I saw with shame
She'd doffed her domino;
And I had embraced an alien waist -But I did not tell her so.
I wish you to see that Jenny and Me
Had barely exchanged our troth;
So a kiss or two was strictly due
By, from, and between us both.
Next morn I knew that there were two
Dominoes pink, and one
Had cloaked the spouse of Sir Julian Vouse,
Our big Political gun.
When Three was over, an eager
lover,
I fled to the gloom outside;
And a Domino came out also
Whom I took for my future bride.
Sir J. was old, and her hair was gold,
And her eye was a blue cerulean;
And the name she said when she turned her
head
Was not in the least like "Julian."
Slant Rhyme - Example
The Darking Thrush - Thomas Hardy
I leant upon a coppice gate
At once a voice arose among
When Frost was spectre-gray,
The bleak twigs overhead
And Winter's dregs made desolate
In a full-hearted evensong
The weakening eye of day.
Of joy illimited;
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and
Like strings of broken lyres,
small,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had sought their household fires.
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.
The land's sharp features seemed to be
The Century's corpse outleant,
So little cause for carolings
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
Of such ecstatic sound
The wind his death-lament.
Was written on terrestial things
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Afar or nigh around,
Was shrunken hard and dry,
That I could think there trembled
And every spirit upon earth
through
Seemed fervourless as I.
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he
knew
And I was unaware.