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Poetry Let’s Review our Terms

+Rhyme

The repeating sounds at the end of words

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf,

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

-Robert Frost

+Do you see the rhyme?

+Rhyme Scheme

The pattern of rhyming words in a poem

It is determined by the last word in the line

The first line gets an “a” and any rhyming lines get an “a” also. If it doesn’t rhyme with the first line, it gets a “be”, if it doesn’t rhyme with either “a” or “be” it gets a “c”, etc…

+Examples of Rhyme Scheme

+More Examples of Rhyme Scheme

+Alliteration

When the beginning sounds of words repeat in lines

If Peter Piper picked a peck of piczkled of peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

+Can you find the alliteration?

Fast Rabbits

Rabbits running so very fastIn the field of green, green grass.Sniffing for scents of snack time treats,Hippity Hopping on their happy bunny feet.When carrots and other foods are foundThe rabbits prance and pounce.

The Wonderful Wind

The wonderful wind whistles Repeated reminders throughout the dayTelling tales of what is comingPredicting and preparing us to pray.The wise wind sometimes whispersThe secrets that have been secretly hid.

+Simile

Comparing two different things using the words “like” or “as”

My Love is Like a Red Red Rose

• My love is like a red red roseThat’s newly sprung in June;My love is like the melodieThat’s sweetly play’d in tune.

• -Robert Burns

+Can you find any similes in this poem?

Flint

An emerald is as green as grass,A ruby red as blood;A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;A flint lies in the mud.

A diamond is a brilliant stone,To catch the world's desire;An opal holds a fiery spark;But a flint holds a fire.

Christina Rossetti 1830-1894

+Hyperbole

HUGE exaggeration

Hyperbole is an over exaggerated expression or an overstatement, for a specific effect. It may be to be funny or very emotional.

I have mountains of work to do.

I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

+Is there any hyperbole in this poem?

School Fight

You can’t hear a pin drop

As all the kids gather around;

They are vultures

Waiting for the corpse

Of the one who loses.

The tall kid…

He swings his fist with his hurricane force.

A torrential spray of blood

Explodes from the smaller boy’s nose

And covers the tiled floor.

The vultures fly away

As the teachers quickly approach.

+Onomatopoeia

Words that imitate the sounds they make.

Meow, clink, snap, crackle, pop, boom, mumble, buzz, fizz, click

+Which words are examples of Onomatopoeia?

Cafeteria

Boom!Went the foodtrays. Clap! Clap!Goes the teacher.Rip! Went the plastic bag.Munch! Munch!Go the students.Slurp!!!Went the straws.WhisperIs what half the kidsin the roomare doing.Crunch! Crunch!gothe candy bars.

By: Rachael

+Refrain

A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem. Often it is at the end of a stanza.

In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, The Raven, Poe uses the word “Nevermore” throughout the poem as a refrain.

+What is the refrain in this poem?

Refrain The air is dark, the night is sad,

I lie sleepless and I groan.

Nobody cares when a man goes mad:

He is sorry, God is glad.

Shadow changes into bone.

Every shadow has a name;

When I think of mine I moan,

I hear rumors of such fame.

Not for pride, but only shame,

Shadow changes into bone.

When I blush I weep for joy,

And laughter drops from me like a stone:

The aging laughter of the boy

To see the ageless dead so coy.

Shadow changes into bone.

-Allen Ginsberg

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Now that you have reviewed, let’s practice….