Name:__________________________________
Language and Composition Poetry Analysis Graphic Organizer
Title of Poem:____________________________________
1. What is the subject of the poem?
2. Who is the speaker?
3. Who is the audience?
4. Paraphrase the poem: Translate the poem into your own words – paraphrase line by line for short poems
OR summarize stanza by stanza for long poems.
5.
Annotate the poem for devices.
Poetic Device
IMAGERY:
METAPHORS:
SIMILES:
ASSONANCE:
Example from the poem
ALLITERATION:
HYPERBOLE:
ONOMOTOPOEIA:
OTHER DEVICES:
6. Tone/Attitude:
Speaker’s attitude toward self, other characters, and the
subject of the poem
Attitudes of characters other than the poem’s speaker
7. What is the theme/message about life/human condition that the poem is trying to get across?