EXAMPLES OF POETRY TERMS

EXAMPLE #1

Never did a love seem so sweet

As ours when we first met

EXAMPLE #1

Enjambment

EXAMPLE #2

Tall Tom told tiny Tina to take turns today.

EXAMPLE #2

Alliteration

EXAMPLE #3

I sit and play as life goes by

Questioning fate and asking why

Why do some draw a useless card

Whilst others lives are so easy

Against their ace we draw a three

What is it that makes living hard

EXAMPLE #3

Sestet

EXAMPLE #4

There is no gain in pain but again no pain no gain!

EXAMPLE #4

Consonance

EXAMPLE #5

Once upon a midnight dreary,

while I pondered, weak and weary,

EXAMPLE #5

rhyme

EXAMPLE #6

I stroll along a fragrant country lane With honeysuckle perfume on the air -And feathered crooner's warble to

revere -Then cross a golden sea of flowing grainIn empathy - it seems to sense my painOf knowing all was

done with my affair -Her empty meaning now the solitaireShe cast away - betrothment all in vain.

EXAMPLE #6

octet

EXAMPLE #7

EXAMPLE #7

Rhyme scheme

EXAMPLE #8

"Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese"

EXAMPLE #8

assonance

EXAMPLE #9

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way

EXAMPLE #9

imagery

EXAMPLE #10

I tire of writing poems and rhyme

I think I need vacation time

EXAMPLE #10

couplet

EXAMPLE #11

That time of year thou mayst in me behold

(da DUM da DUM da DUM da Dum da DUM)

EXAMPLE #11

Meter(imambic pentameter

to be exact)