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Poetry

Poetry. December 2010. Anaphora Assonance Epistrophe Chance Poetry Cobla Haiku. Poetry. A rhetorical device in which several successive lines, phrases, clauses and sentences begin with the same word or phrase Example: “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman Ever the hard unsunk ground

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Poetry

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  1. Poetry December 2010

  2. Anaphora Assonance Epistrophe Chance Poetry Cobla Haiku Poetry

  3. A rhetorical device in which several successive lines, phrases, clauses and sentences begin with the same word or phrase Example: “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman Ever the hard unsunk ground Ever the eaters and drinkers, ever the upward and down- ward sun, ever the air and the ceaseless tides, Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing wicked, real, Ever the old inexplicable query, ever that thorn’d thumb, that breath of itches and thirsts, Ever the vexer’s hoot! hoot! till we find where they sly one hides and bring them forth, Ever love, ever the sobbing liquid of life, Ever the bandage under the chin, ever the trestles of death. Anaphora

  4. Rhyme scheme – The repetition of vowel sounds Repeats vowels but changes consonants Example: Strips of tinfoil winking like people from “The Bee Meeting” by Silvia Plath Additional examples: grape/shave, ripe/pine Assonance

  5. The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive lines or clauses Example, “The Merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare Epistrophe

  6. Poetry written using chance methods Words written on cards and drawn at random or going through the dictionary and randomly selecting words Chance Poetry

  7. Any poem that is one stanza long A single, isolated stanza Example, Chapter 1 epigram in “Call of the Wild” Cobla

  8. “Amusement” + “Sentence”; important path to insight in Zen Buddhism A Japanese poetic form made up of three lines with a total of seventeen syllables – usually arranged 5-7-5 Brevity, immediacy, spontaneity, imagery, a reference to one of the four seasons Haiku

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