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Examples of Poetry Terms. Example #1. Never did a love seem so sweet As ours when we first met. Example #1. Enjambment. Example #2. T all T om t old t iny T ina t o t ake t urns t oday. Example #2. Alliteration. Example #3. I sit and play as life goes by
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Example #1 Never did a love seem so sweet As ours when we first met
Example #1 Enjambment
Example #2 Tall Tom told tiny Tina to take turns today.
Example #2 Alliteration
Example #3 I sit and play as life goes by Questioning fate and asking why Why do some draw a useless card Whilst others lives are so easy Against their ace we draw a three What is it that makes living hard
Example #3 Sestet
Example #4 There is no gain in pain but again no pain no gain!
Example #4 Consonance
Example #5 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Example #5 rhyme
Example #6 I stroll along a fragrant country lane With honeysuckle perfume on the air - And feathered crooner's warble to revere - Then cross a golden sea of flowing grain In empathy - it seems to sense my pain Of knowing all was done with my affair - Her empty meaning now the solitaire She cast away - betrothment all in vain.
Example #6 octet
Example #7 Rhyme scheme
Example #8 "Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese"
Example #8 assonance
Example #9 A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way
Example #9 imagery
Example #10 I tire of writing poems and rhyme I think I need vacation time
Example #10 couplet
Example #11 That time of yearthoumaystin mebehold (da DUM da DUM da DUM da Dum da DUM)
Example #11 Meter (imambic pentameter to be exact)