Meter : poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines or verses.
Verse: a single metrical line in a poetic composition; one line of poetry.
Point of View in Poetry
poet speaker
The poet is the author of the poem
the speaker of the poem is the ‘”narrator” of the poem
Poetry form
FORM The appearance of the words on the page
LINE A group of wordstogether on one line of the poem.
STANZA A group of lines arranged together
KINDS OF STANZAS Couplet = a two line stanza
Triplet (Tercet) = a three line stanza
Quatrain = a four line stanza
Quintet = a five line stanza
Sestet (Sextet) = a six line stanza
Septet = a seven line stanza
Octave = an eight line stanza
Simple, four line rhyme
Rhyming a,b,c,d :
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that mary went
The lamb was sure to go
Simple, four line rhymeRhyming a,a,b,b:
Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky.
Simple, four line rhyme
Rhyming a,b,a,b :
The rain was like a little mouse,
Quiet, small and gray.
It pattered all around the house
And then it went away.
Simple, four line rhyme
Rhyming a,a,a,a:
Rain, rain, go away
Come again another day
Little children want to play
So rain, rain, go away.
Types of poems
ballad haiku
elegy weather
ode concrete
lyric cinquain
sonnet diamonte
epic Free style
heroic Blank verse
limerick Romance
Ballad
A ballad is a narrative poem, usually set to music; thus, it often is a story told in a song. Any story form may be told as a ballad, such as historical accounts or fairy tales in verse form.
Ballad
The ballad of the Landlord,
which was written by Langston Hughes is an excellent example of a ballad.
cinquain
a short poem consisting of five, usually unrhymed lines containing respectively two, four, six, eight and two syllables.
Haiku
Japanese poem of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables.
Syllables : a unit of spoken language that consist of one or more vowel sounds alone. “sun” is one syllable and “sunshine” is two syllables.
Haiku
Example
The pond I used to
Swim in has hardened now, but
It is mine year round.
Andrea Baccigalupi (age 9)
Free verse poetry
Is a type of poetry that is written without using strict meter, rhythm or rhyme, but is still recognized as poetry.
Free verse poetry
Bring me all of your dreams,You dreamers,Bring me all of yourHeart melodiesThat I may wrap themIn a blue cloud-clothAway from the too-rough fingers of the
world.Langston Hughes.
sonnet
A poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter ( stress is on the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th and 10th syllables of each line), restricted to a definite rhyme scheme.
Shakespeare wrote sonnets.