POETRY TERMS
terms that have to do with
form
STYLE
a particular kind,
sort,
or type
of form,
appearance,
or character
FORM
something that gives or determines shape
a mold
FORM
haiku
Basho
No one travels
Along this way but I,
This autumn evening.
STRUCTURE
the relationship
or organization
of the component parts
of a work of literature
STRUCTURE
diamante
“Take your Time”
by Rosana Tellini
Vacation
Happy, fun
Sleeping, dancing, traveling
Liberty, car, beach, night
Exciting, interesting, moving
Unhappy, boring
Work
METER
poetic measure;
arrangement of words
in regularly measured,
patterned,
or rhythmic lines
or verses
METER
from “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it
And spills the upper boulder in the sun,
And make gaps even two can pass abreast.
VERSE
a stanza,
a succession of metrical feet,
a particular type of metrical line,
a poem or piece of poetry,
a metrical composition
VERSE
from “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns
O, my luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O, my luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly played in tune.
STANZA
an arrangement
of a certain number of lines,
usually four or more,
sometimes having a fixed length,
meter,
or rhyme scheme,
forming a division of a poem
STANZAS
from “The Raven” by Edgar Alan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak
and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten
lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a
tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber
door.
“‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my
chamber door—
Only this, and nothing more.”
RHYMES
agreeing end sound,
verses,
or lines of poetry
having correspondence
in the terminal sounds of the lines
RHYME
from “Disobedience” by A.A. Milne
James James
Morrison Morrison
Weatherby George Dupree
Took great
Care of his Mother,
Though he was only three.
James James
Said to his Mother,
“Mother,” he said, said he;
“You must never go down
to the end of the town,
if you don’t go down with me.”
SONNET
a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete
thought, idea, or sentiment,
of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes
arranged according to one of certain definite schemes,
being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major
group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group
of 6 lines (the sestet),
and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed
by a couplet
SONNET
“Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room”
by William Wordsworth
Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room
And hermits are contented with their cells;
And students with their pensive citadels;
Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom,
Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom,
High as the highest Peak of Furness-fells,
Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells:
In truth the prison, into which we doom
Ourselves, no prison is: and hence for me,
In sundry moods, ‘twas pastime to be bound
Within the Sonnet’s scanty plot of ground;
Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be)
Who have felt the weight of too much liberty,
Should find brief solace there, as I have found.
Styles of Poems
(a STYLE is a particular kind, sort, form, or appearance)
Styles of Poems
(a STYLE is a particular kind, sort, form, or appearance)
Some styles of poems have no set FORM.
Styles of Poems
(a STYLE is a particular kind, sort, form, or appearance)
Some styles of poems have no set FORM.
Some poems have a given shape, a FORM.
The relationship or organization of its component parts
gives that style of poem its characteristic STRUCTURE.
Styles of Poems
(a STYLE is a particular kind, sort, form, or appearance)
Some styles of poems have no set FORM.
Some poems have a given shape, a FORM.
The relationship or organization of its component parts
gives that style of poem its characteristic STRUCTURE.
Some poems with a particular form use STANZAS:
an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more.
Styles of Poems
(a STYLE is a particular kind, sort, form, or appearance)
Some styles of poems have no set FORM.
Some poems have a given shape, a FORM.
The relationship or organization of its component parts
gives that style of poem its characteristic STRUCTURE.
Some poems with a particular form use STANZAS:
an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more.
Some stanzas have a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme
and form a division of a poem.
Styles of Poems
(a STYLE is a particular kind, sort, form, or appearance)
Some styles of poems have no set FORM.
Some poems have a given shape, a FORM.
The relationship or organization of its component parts
gives that style of poem its characteristic STRUCTURE.
Some poems with a particular form use STANZAS:
an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more.
Some stanzas have a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme
and form a division of a poem.
Sometimes writing in stanzas is called VERSE: a succession of metrical feet,
a particular type of metrical line, a poem or piece of poetry, a metrical composition.
Styles of Poems
(a STYLE is a particular kind, sort, form, or appearance)
Some styles of poems have no set FORM.
Some poems have a given shape, a FORM.
The relationship or organization of its component parts
gives that style of poem its characteristic STRUCTURE.
Some poems with a particular form use STANZAS:
an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more.
Some stanzas have a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme
and form a division of a poem.
Sometimes writing in stanzas is called VERSE: a succession of metrical feet,
a particular type of metrical line, a poem or piece of poetry, a metrical composition.
METER is an arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic
lines.
Styles of Poems
(a STYLE is a particular kind, sort, form, or appearance)
Some styles of poems have no set FORM.
Some poems have a given shape, a FORM.
The relationship or organization of its component parts
gives that style of poem its characteristic STRUCTURE.
Some poems with a particular form use STANZAS:
an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more.
Some stanzas have a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme
and form a division of a poem.
Sometimes writing in stanzas is called VERSE: a succession of metrical feet,
a particular type of metrical line, a poem or piece of poetry, a metrical composition.
METER is an arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic
lines.
Some forms of poems have verses or stanzas that RHYME.
Styles of Poems
(a STYLE is a particular kind, sort, form, or appearance)
Some styles of poems have no set FORM.
Some poems have a given shape, a FORM.
The relationship or organization of its component parts
gives that style of poem its characteristic STRUCTURE.
Some poems with a particular form use STANZAS:
an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more.
Some stanzas have a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme
and form a division of a poem.
Sometimes writing in stanzas is called VERSE: a succession of metrical feet,
a particular type of metrical line, a poem or piece of poetry, a metrical composition.
METER is an arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic
lines.
Some forms of poems have verses or stanzas that RHYME.
One particular form of poetry that has rhyming stanzas is a SONNET.
…AND REMEMBER,
THE BACKWARD POET WRITES INVERSE.