Elements of poetry
Poetry is a written form that expresses emotions, observations and feelings through rhythmic cadence. Poetry creates word pictures, describes moments, objects or ideas and expresses feelings. Free verse poems do not rhyme. Lyrical poems use imagery to express feeling and use rhythm, regular meter and rhyme.
Elements or Structure of poetry:
Rhyme – Two or more words which match in the same last sound (bat,cat, sat ).
Rhythm – The beat or cadence of poetry. A fast rhythm indicates action, excitement, tension, or suspense. A slow rhythm suggests peacefulness, fullness, harmony, and comfort. Often, a change in rhythm signals a change in action or a change in meaning.
Pattern of Rhyme or Rhyme Scheme–
(illustrated in the following poem)
Excerpt from
"Our House"
by Dorothy Brown Thompson
Our house is small (a)
The lawn and all (a)
Can scarcely hold the flowers, (b)
Yet every bit, (c)
The whole of it, (c)
Is precious, for it’s ours! (b)
Mood: The feeling the author is trying to convey
Meter: A rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Verse: A line of poetry
Stanza: A stanza is to a poem what a paragraph is to prose. In poetry, each line of words is placed within a stanza. A stanza is group of lines that convey an idea.
Theme: The message or the lesson the author is trying to convey
Poetry is a written form that expresses emotions, observations and feelings through rhythmic cadence. Poetry creates word pictures, describes moments, objects or ideas and expresses feelings. Free verse poems do not rhyme. Lyrical poems use imagery to express feeling and use rhythm, regular meter and rhyme.
Elements or Structure of poetry:
Rhyme – Two or more words which match in the same last sound (bat,cat, sat ).
Rhythm – The beat or cadence of poetry. A fast rhythm indicates action, excitement, tension, or suspense. A slow rhythm suggests peacefulness, fullness, harmony, and comfort. Often, a change in rhythm signals a change in action or a change in meaning.
Pattern of Rhyme or Rhyme Scheme–
(illustrated in the following poem)
Excerpt from
"Our House"
by Dorothy Brown Thompson
Our house is small (a)
The lawn and all (a)
Can scarcely hold the flowers, (b)
Yet every bit, (c)
The whole of it, (c)
Is precious, for it’s ours! (b)
Mood: The feeling the author is trying to convey
Meter: A rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Verse: A line of poetry
Stanza: A stanza is to a poem what a paragraph is to prose. In poetry, each line of words is placed within a stanza. A stanza is group of lines that convey an idea.
Theme: The message or the lesson the author is trying to convey
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TYPES OF POEMS
Haiku
Cinquain
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Concrete Poem
Also called a Shape poem
Acrostic Poem
Also called a Name Poem
Diamante
Limerick
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