Poetry
Ch 6 p. 402
rhythm
• The repetition of stressed and unstressed
syllables
• What is rhythm
Elegy- For My Grandmother
This lovely flower fell to seed; A
Work gently, sun and rain; B
She held it as her dying creed A
That she would grow again. B
• When it rhymes perfectly it is called
Exact rhyme
What gives poems a musical
quality.
rhyme
• It gives a musical quality to a poem.
• Think Sam McGee ballad
exact rhyme/approximate rhyme
This lovely flower fell to seed;
Work gently, sun and rain;
She held it as her dying creed
That she would grow again.
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B
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B
What is it called when it does not
rhyme perfectly as in a rhyme with
orange.
Approximate, slant, or near rhyme.
Approximate, near, slant rhyme
This lovely flower fell to seed;
Work gently, sun and rain;
She held it as her dying creed
That she would grow again.
Orange—door hinge
Porridge
What is the
• The regular pattern of stressed and
unstressed syllables. Heartbeat. Tu Tum
• Rhythm is the pattern of stressed and
unstressed syllables.
meter
Couplet2 consecutive lines that rhyme
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The panther is like a leopard,
Except it hasn’t been peppered.
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Rhyme scheme is always AA
BB CC DD EE FF
Couplet
• The panther is
• like a leopard,
• Except it hasn’t
• been peppered.
• A
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Internal rhyme- inside a line
“While I nodded nearly napping
Suddenly there came a tapping
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my
chamber door.”
• Assonance- the repetition of a
vowel sound.
• There are strange things done in
the midnight sun
End rhyme
• End rhyme at the end of a line.
Free verse
• It does not rhyme, but it usually has
rhythmic elements.
• Think Paul Revere’s Ride
Free verse
• Give me the splendid silent sun with all his
beams full dazzling. (alliteration)
• Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red
from the orchard
• Give me a field where the unmowed grass
grows.
• Give me an arbor, give me the trellised
grape
Refrain/repetition
(chorus)
• Give me
• Give me…
alliteration
• The repetition of a consonant
• Give me the splendid silent sun with all
his beams full dazzling.
• Green, grow, great, ground, grass, giving
• Brown, bark, big, bent, branches
assonance
• The repetition of a vowel sound
• Napping, tapping, rapping
• Tree, bee, see, harmony,
onomatopoeia
• Refers to the use of sound that imitates
or suggests the meaning of a word
• Boom, burp, zing,
• Crack, buzz, swoosh, whisper
• Chirp
• Rustle,
• Sizzle
• Hiss, boom, kaboom, bang, zap, roar,
Ballad• Narrative (old songs from Middle Ages in
England)
• Songlike poem
• Often sad, about betrayal, loss or death
• Simple rhyme and words
• Refrain
• Steady rhythm or meter
• Ex. “The Cremation of Sam McGee”
Epic
• Long, narrative poem
• Hero
• Elegant, formal language
• Ex. Beowulf, The Odyssey, The Iliad
Narrative Poem
• Tells a story
• Ex. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Lyric poem-emotional
• Expresses feelings; it does not tell a story
Ode
• An ode is a long, lyric poem that
usually praises one thing written
in dignified, serious, formal
language.
sonnet
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A 14 line lyric poem
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Sonnet/rhyming couplets
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Reminiscing
by Ralph Cortez
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Watermelons were so much sweeter then,
When boys were the stuff of super men,
And summers seemed so much longer too,
With nothing pending and nothing due.
We were swordsmen-swashbuckling heroes.
Eternal victors-never zeroes;
Second basemen and clean-up hitters;
Forever winners, never quitters
Play was a ritual in those days,
To go on magical mind forays,
To play the game with aplomb and ease,
To venture forth when and where we'd please.
We would feign death, and then rise up again.
Watermelons were so much sweeter then.
simile
A comparison using like or as
The tree is like a crooked, old man.
metaphor
• A direct comparison
• The crooked, old man tree
Personification
• Giving human traits to nonhuman things
• Ex.
• The tree’s hair fell to the ground.
Main idea of a poem?
• Main idea- underlying meaning
Think Like a Tree
Soak up the sun
Affirm life's magic
Be graceful in the wind
Stand tall after a storm
Feel refreshed after it
rains
Grow strong without
notice
Critical detail
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Essential, important information
Date of birth and death
Famous for
(lifeguard story)
Direct quote vs. paraphrase
• Think Like a Tree
• “Soak up the sun
Affirm life's magic
Be graceful in the wind
Stand tall after a storm
Feel refreshed after it rains
Grow strong without notice”
• This is about learning a life lesson by following
the example of a tree.
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