Poetry

POETRY

E T H A N H O V E L A N D

POETIC DEVICES

1. speaker - a person giving a speech or talking

2. diction - the style of enunciating

3. imagery - Figurative language using visual descriptions

4. allusion - an indirect reference

5. simile - when two things are being compared

6. personification - giving human qualities to non-human things

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Poetic Devices

7. metaphor - figurative speech that doesn’t use like or as

8. refrain - a part of a poem or song that is repeated

9. symbol - something that represents something else

10. stanza - a verse

11. alliteration - the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words

12. onomatopoeia - using words to imitate sounds

13. enjambment - the continuation of one line in a verse to the next

14. connotation - the implication of feelings

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15. denotation - the literal meaning of a word

16. euphemism - a word or phrase that explains something in a nicer way

17. tone - Attitude towards a subject

18. hyperbole - exaggerated statements not to be taken literally

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Blackout poetry - when you get a piece of text, like a newspaper, and cross out words with a marker to make a poem.

BLACKOUT POETRY

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Examples Of Blackout Poetry

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Poem with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second, 5 in the third.

HAIKU

The crow has flown away:

swaying in the evening sun,

a leafless tree.

Over the wintry

forest, winds howl in rage

with no leaves to blow.

Everything I touch

with tenderness, alas,

pricks like a bramble.

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Haiku Examples

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“I am” poems are poems that are written about you in a certain order. ex. - A lot of the lines start with I am.

“I AM” POEMS

I am sedate and young

I wonder about my life

I hear many different music

I see colorful colors

I want the most out of life


I pretend to not be worried

I feel anxious

I touch many things

I worry about the future

I cry when horrible things happen


I understand some things

I say to find hobbies

I dream about past mistakes

I try to do my best

I hope to learn from mistakes


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My I Am Poem

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-An English Sonnet is poem that has 14 lines. It usually has around 10 syllables per line.

-A Italian Sonnet is a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd

SONNETS

Turn back the heart you've turned away

Give back your kissing breath

Leave not my love as you have left

The broken hearts of yesterday

But wait, be still, don't lose this way

Affection now, for what you guess

May be something more, could be less

Accept my love, live for today.

Your roses wilted, as love spurned

Yet trust in me, my love and truth

Dwell in my heart, from which you've turned

My strength as great as yours aloof.

It is in fear you turn away

And miss the chance of love today!

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Italian Sonnet

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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English Sonnet

Our Sonnet - The Magic Cow

We are gunna go to the carnival

we will eat cherry ice cream all day long

then we will go to the place where there are

people and puppets playing with children

when we finally leave the puppet place

we will skip all the way to the bathroom

and once we finish there we will go home

after that we can go to the barber

at that barber we will get our beards shaved

then since our manly beards have been removed

we venture out to the magical barn

to fight the magic cow with our utters

if we do our best then we will beat him

when the cow is gone we will rest our heads

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Our Sonnet

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CONCRETE POEMS

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A poem where the first letter from each name forms a name or saying.

ACROSTIC POEM

S heep were gathering in the meadow

H appily eating grass

A nd

R ipe

P lants.

A bove the hill

S at a hungry wolf,

A waiting the time

T o

A ttack the herd of sheep.

C almly he waits to go in for the

K ill.

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My Acrostic Poem

M y swagger be off da chain

Y ou see me walking by

S up ladies

W anna catch a movie

A nd get a bite to eat

G irls be like

G et away freak

E very day I be swooning the ladies

R ight now you getting swooned.

O nly da best can roll with me

F ollow me on Twitter @SwaggerStan

F o yo information

D on’t forget it

A nd you won’t regret it

Call me up at 641-485-SwagSwagSwag

Hit me up on FaceBook @BadgerSwagger

And don’t forget to

I nstagram me @Swagalicious

NBD.

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Stanley’s Acrostic Poem

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A poem that doesn’t rhyme or have a regular meter.

FREE VERSE

Everyone sat inside and stared at the flames

While the storm raged outside.

Trying to gather all the warmth that they could,

They all huddled together closer,

trying to escape the jaws of death.

After the storm dies,

they all leave.

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Free Verse

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A poem when the words are slightly changed to mean a different things.

PARODY POEM

Regular Poem

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Parody Poem

Fire! Fire! burning bright

In the city in the night,

What man or woman

Could help with this fearful disaster?

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Parody Poem

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