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Chapter 29

Chapter 29. Poetic Forms. Background Information…. Poems come in various forms, but many stick to traditional patterns (fixed form) Some poems do not even have a form or pattern of meter, rhyme or stanza, which is referred to as free verse.

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Chapter 29

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  1. Chapter 29 Poetic Forms

  2. Background Information… • Poems come in various forms, but many stick to traditional patterns (fixed form) • Some poems do not even have a form or pattern of meter, rhyme or stanza, which is referred to as free verse. • Stanzas and rhyme schemes are indicators of types of poems, words that describe them are as follows: couplet, heroic couplet, tercet, triplet, terzarima, quatrain and ballad stanza • A commonly used poem form is the sonnet (Italian/English).

  3. Sestina • Does not rhyme • Consists of envoy • Thirty-nine lines of any length divided into six six-line stanzas • Three line concluding stanza • Difficulty with lines is repeating six words at the ends of the first stanza’s lines • Originated in Middle Ages

  4. Limerick • Always light and humorous • Consists of five predominantly anapestic lines rhyming aabba. • Lines 1, 2, and 5 contain three feet • Lines 3 and 4 contain two feet.

  5. Haiku • Brief fixed poem form • Originated in Japan • Consists of seventeen syllables, three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.

  6. Elegy • Describe lyric poem written to commemorate someone dead • Also use to refer to serious meditative poem produced to express speaker’s melancholy thoughts.

  7. Ode • Characterized by serious topic and formal tone • Either pattern of each stanza repeated or each stanza is introduced with a new pattern • Often has a length of lyrics with emotions • Example topics- Truth, art, freedom, justice, and meaning of life.

  8. Parody • Parody poems are used to emphasize poems • Parody is used to expose defects on a work of an affectionate acknowledgement

  9. Lonely Hearts by Wendy Cope Villanelle Can someone make my simple wish come true? Male biker seeks female for touring fun. Do you live in North London? Is it you? Gay vegetarian whose friends are few, I'm into music, Shakespeare and the sun, Can someone make my simple wish come true? Executive in search of something new - Perhaps bisexual woman, arty, young. Do you live in North London? Is it you? Successful, straight and solvent? I am too - Attractive Jewish lady with a son. Can someone make my simple wish come true? I'm Libran, inexperienced and blue - Need slim non-smoker, under twenty-one. Do you live in North London? Is it you? Please write (with photo) to Box 152. Who knows where it may lead once we've begun? Can someone make my simple wish come true? Do you live in North London? Is it you? Fixed form consisting of nineteen lines of any length divided into six stanzas Five tercets Concluding quatrain First and third lines of initial tercet rhyme Repeated in each subsequent tercet (aba) Final two lines of quatrain (abaa)

  10. Chapter 30 Open Form

  11. Background Information… • Open verse is used so that lack of discipline and shape of a free verse isn’t forgotten • Prose poems doesn’t always look like poetry • Open Form Poems don’t pertain to a specific category • There are many unique forms and patterns that can be included in an Open Form Poem • Fixed Form Poetry Offers guidelines and requirements as well as rules • Even though Fixed Form and Open Form Poetry are very different, they both offer the hidden secrets that the author wishes to express for the readers entertainment.

  12. Alzheimer's by Kelly Cherry Prose Poem He stands at the door, a crazy old man Back from the hospital, is mind rattling Like the suitcase, swinging from his hand, That contains shaving cream, a piggy bank A book he sometimes pretends to read, His clothes. On the brick wall besides him Roses and columbine slug it out for space, claw the mortar. The sun is shining, as it does late in the afternoon In England, after rain. Sun hardens the house, reifies it, Strikes the iron grillwork like smithy And sparks fly off, burning in the bushes- The rosebushes- While the white wood trim defines solidity in space. This is his house. He remembers it as his, Remembers the walkway he built between the front room And the garage, the rhododendron he planted in back, The car he used to drive. He remembers himself, A younger man, in a tweed hat, a man who loved Music. There is no time for that now. No time for music, The peculiar screeching of strings, the luxurious Fiddling with emotion. Other things have become more urgent. Other matters are now of greater import, have more Consequence, must be attended to. The first Thing he must do, now that he is home, is decide who This woman is, this old, white-haired woman Standing here in the doorway, Welcoming him in. Characteristics Densely compacted Striking imagery Figures of speech Typical language

  13. Classwork… • In Medias Res – Michael McFee • Pg. 1030 • Domestic Work, 1937 – Natasha Trethewey • Pg. 1042

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