Review notes in your ENGLISH NOTEBOOK, and define the following terms:
-Stanza:
-Quatrain
-Couplet
-Meter:
-Iambic Pentameter
-Rhyme Scheme
-Sonnet

- Stanza:
- Quatrain
- Couplet
- Meter:
- Iambic Pentameter
- Rhyme Scheme
- Sonnet

• A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains:
– Couplet: two lines
– Triplet: three lines
– Quatrain: four lines
– Quintet: five lines
– Sestet: six lines
– Septet: seven lines
– Octave: Eight lines

• The patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
– Foot: the smallest repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line.
• Iambic: an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable.
– Verse: is a metric line of poetry named according to the number of feet and type of feet composing it.
• Pentameter: five feet (penta meaning five)

• The similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words: (sat and cat)
– End Rhyme: the rhyming of words that appear at the ends of two or more lines of poetry.
– Rhyme Scheme: The pattern of end rhymes used in a poem usually marked by letters to symbolize rhyming correspondence (abab, cdcd, efef, gg)

• A poem consisting of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter
– Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet
– Shakespearean (Elizabethan or English) Sonnet
• Consists of three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet
• Rhyme Scheme = abab, cdcd, efef, gg

I will be able to analyze the poetic forms of the poems in poetry collection #3 by using the chart provided. I will know I’ve met my goal
when I can explain a poem’s form using complete sentences.

• Poetic Form
• Tanka
• Villanelle

• A poem’s defined STRUCTURE.
– Meter?
– Rhyme Scheme?
– Stanzas?

• Five-line unrhymed form of poetry that originates in Japan
• Usually focuses on a meditation of nature for the purpose of wisdom.
• The syllable pattern of Tanka poetry follows:
– 5-7-5-7-7

The flowing river (5)
Twists and turns and runs away (7)
Thinking of the sea (5)
Through the forests light and dark (7)
At last kissing salty waves (7)

• A poem written in nineteen-line form with a pattern of repeated lines and a specific rhyme scheme.
– The lines of a villanelle are grouped into five triplets and one quatrain.
– Rhyme scheme = aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa
– Line 1 is repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18.
– Line 3 is repeated in lines 9, 15, and 19.
• The deliberate repetition of lines can create a chanting effect or suggest intense passion.

• Before we read, let’s compare two songs that share a similar theme with “My City.”
– “New York, New York”
– “Empire State of Mind”

by James Weldon Johnson
• Weldon is a contemporary poet who modeled his sonnet “My City” after the poetic form of a
Shakespearean Sonnet.
– In this sonnet, Johnson uses a modified rhyme scheme in the first two quatrains.
– In the rest of the poem, however, he follows classic
Shakespearean form.
• Let’s use your Analysis chart to determine the poetic form used by Johnson’s “My City.”

Elements
Number of lines/types of stanzas
Number of syllables in each line
Pattern of accents
Rhyme
Scheme
Poetic form/type of poem
“My City”

• Explain the poetic form of “My City” by James
Weldon Johnson:
1. The poem “My City” is a written in the form of a
_______________.
2. The poem “My City” consists of
__________lines.
3. The lines of “My City are broken into____quatrains and ____couplet.
4. The poem “My City” uses a pattern of accents known as ________ ________.

• What is the type of landscape does the speaker described first in “My City?”
• Contrast the landscape the speaker prefers in “My
City” with the one he first describes.
• What does the speaker mean by “When I come down to sleep death’s endless night?”

• Background:
– Written when his father was dying; therefore--
– Speaker is addressing his dying father
– Presents a view of death different from previous thought
• Before we read, let’s analyze the POETIC
FORM of this poem…

Elements
Number of lines/types of stanzas
Number of syllables in each line
Rhyme
Scheme
Poetic form/type of poem
“Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night”

• Explain the poetic form of “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good night”:
1. The poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good night” is written in the form of a
_______________.
2. The poem consists of __________lines.
3. The lines are broken into_______ and ________.
4. The poem “My City” uses a rhyme scheme of
___________ .

• What does the speaker mean when he says
– “Do not go gentle into that good night?”
– “Old age should burn and rave at the close of day?”
• Do you agree with this speaker’s view? Why or why not?

“When I went to visit…” Elements
Number of lines/types of stanzas
Number of syllables in each line
Rhyme Scheme
“The Clustering Clouds…”
Poetic form/type of poem

• Explain the poetic form of “Clustering
Clouds…” and “When I went to visit…”:
1. The poems “Clustering clouds…” and “When I went to visit” are written in the form of a
_______________.
2. Each poem consists of __________lines.
3. The lines are broken into a pattern of_______ following 5-7-5-7-7.
4. The poem does not follow a specific______ .

• Compare what is actually happening in “clustering clouds” with the speaker’s interpretation of what’s happening to the night sky.
• What is the weather like when the speaker goes to visit?
• What does this weather indicate about the speaker’s love for the girl?

Complete the sentence frames below:
The poem “My City” is written in the form of a
___________. The main idea of the poem is similar to ______________ in that
_____________.