Review Poetry

Couplet: Two lines of a poem together, with the same rhyme and the same rhyme at the end.

Rhyming Couplet

Rhyme Scheme

Find words that rhyme with

eye black glue will

Build rhyming sentences with 5 of them.

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Stanza: A part of a poem with similar rhyme and rhythm which are grouped together.

Rhyme: Words at the end of a line of a poem that sound alike

Verse: a line of a poem

The Shakespearean sonnet is a type of lyric poem has 14 lines, three quatrains (four line stanzas) and a

couplet (two line stanza) the final couplet usually reveals the underlying

message of the poem The meter, or pattern of stresses or beats, is iambic

pentameter

Shakespearean Sonnet

Rhyme Scheme

ABAB -First quatrainCDCD -Second quatrainEFEF -Third quatrainGG -Final couplet

What is a meter in poetry?

Which types of meter are there?

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Meter is a unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats.

It is also called a foot. Each foot has a certain number of syllables in it,

usually two or three syllables. The difference in types of meter is which syllables are

accented and which are not. 

Meter in Poetry

Iamb: unstressed, stressed

Trochee: stressed, unstressed

Dactyl: stressed, unstressed, unstressed

Anapest: unstressed, unstressed, stressed

Spondee: stressed, stressed

Types of Meter

Come live with me and be my loveCome live with me and be my love Iamb Tell me not in mournful numbersTell me not in mournful numbers Trochee Half a league, half a leagueHalf a league, half a league Dactyl

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Trochee trips from long to shortFrom long to long in solemn sort

Slow spondee stalks; strong foot yet ill ableEver to run with the dactyl trisyllable.

Iambics march from short to long.With a leap and a bound the swift anapests throng.

Metrical Feet by Samuel Coleridge

Haiku: a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count.

Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.

Originally from Japan

Haiku

What could the Structure be?

Haiku Example #1 Haiku Example #2

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The autumn wind blowsCalling the leaves on the groundTo join him in dance.

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I really like toast. It is yummy when it's hot.

I like it best cold

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Explain the different types of poems listed below.

Narrative poem – Lyric poem – Sonnet – Haiku

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow

1807-1882

American poet and educator

One of the Fireside Poets

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes

The poets' primary topics were the domestic life, mythology, and politics of the United States in the 19th century

The Fireside Poets wrote for the common people normal, everyday people

The Fireside Poets told stories in their poems and wanted those stories to be told to other people

Fireside Poets

Their poems show a standard form:◦ regular meter◦ rhymed stanzas◦Narrative poems

The Standard form made the poems perfect for memorization and recitation in school and at home

At home their poems was a form of entertainment for families gathered around the fire Fireside Poets

What do prayers and poems have in common? How are they different?

Prayers vs. Poems