Name: _______________________________________________ Date: ___________________ Periods: ____________
Reading Response Journal
Poetry Form & Structure Groups S & T
Directions: For each poem, fill in the chart using complete sentences. Then, write down the rhyme scheme by putting the
correct letter in each of the blanks provided. Use the characteristics of poetics forms options box to help guide
you when completing the chart.
Characteristics of Poetics Forms ~ Options for Chart
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It has a bouncing rhythm
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It has a total of 17 of syllables
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3 line poem
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5 line poem
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14 line poem
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Does not rhyme
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It has a set rhyme scheme
Poem Title
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It captures a moment in time
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The last two lines rhyme with each other
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It is broken into 3 quatrains and a couplet
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It is written like a song and tells a story
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It has a lighthearted and humorous tone
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The lines are different lengths
Poetic Form
Determine the form of the poem.
Then, write down the definition of
the form.
Characteristics of Poetic Form:
What characteristics of the poem helped you determine the
form? Explain using complete sentences.
“Poem #60”
“The Second
Coming”
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Poem Title
Poetic Form
Determine the form of the poem.
Then, write down the definition of
the form.
Characteristics of Poetic Form:
What characteristics of the poem helped you determine the
form? Explain using complete sentences.
“A Young
Lady of
Station”
“Moonlight”
“Poem #60”
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, ____
So do our minutes hasten to their end, ____
Each changing place with that which goes before, ____
In sequent toil all forwards do contend. ____
Nativity once in the main of light, ____
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, ____
Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight, ____
And Time that gave, doth now his gift confound. ____
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, ____
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, ____
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, ____
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. ____
And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand ____
Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. ____
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“The Second Coming”
Turning and turning in the widening gyre ____
The falcon cannot hear the falconer; ____
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; ____
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, ____
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere ____
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; ____
The best lack all conviction, while the worst ____
Are full of passionate intensity. ____
Surely some revelation is at hand; ____
Surely the Second Coming is at hand. ____
The Second Coming! ____
Hardly are those words out ____
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi ____
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert ____
A shape with lion body and the head of a man, ____
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, ____
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it ____
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. ____
The darkness drops again; but now I know ____
That twenty centuries of stony sleep ____
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, ____
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, ____
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? ____
“A Young Lady of Station”
There was a young lady of station ____
"I love man" was her sole exclamation ____
But when men cried, "You flatter" ____
She replied, "Oh! no matter ____
Isle of Man is the true explanation"____
“Moonlight”
The autumn moonlight ____
a worm digging silently ____
into the chestnut. ____
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Part 2 Directions: Determine a theme from the poem “Poem #60”. Support your answer choice of theme using
AEC.
A
Assertion
State your inference as an
ASSERTION, or a statement of
fact.
E
Quote #1: In the poem it says, “
Evidence
Provide two quotes from the
story that support your
assertion
Quote #2
Remember to use complete
sentences. Use sentence
starters such as:
In the text it states, “ …”.
C
The first quote shows
Commentary
Explain each quote by
completing the sentence.
The second quote shows
Then, explain how the quotes
show the assertion.
This reveals
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