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Poetry Unit

Learn about poetry terms such as stanzas, meter, and poetic devices like rhyme, simile, metaphor, and more. Explore the rhythm and structure of poetry in this comprehensive guide.

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Poetry Unit

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  1. Poetry Unit

  2. Poetry Terms • Stanza • A stanza consists of a grouping of lines, separated by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme • Ex: Roses are red • Footballs are brown • What happened Denver Broncos • Manning has a frown

  3. Poetry Terms • Stanza • There are different names for stanzas that have a different number of lines. Here is a list of a few: • 2 lines = Couplet • 3 lines = Tercet • 4 lines = Quatrain • 5 lines = Cinquain • 6 lines = Sestet • 7 lines = Septet • 8 lines = Octave

  4. Poetry Terms • Meter • Meter is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in a verse • The recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

  5. Poetry Terms • Verse • A verse is formally a single line in a metrical composition. • Verse has come to represent any division or grouping of words in such a composition, which traditionally had been referred to as a stanza.

  6. Poetry Terms • Imagery • The 5 Senses • (1) Smell • (2) Taste • (3) Touch • (4) Hearing • (5) Sight

  7. What words come to mind, describing smell, when you see this picture? Smell

  8. What words come to mind, describing taste, when you see this picture? Taste

  9. What words come to mind, describing touch, when you see this picture? Touch

  10. What words come to mind, describing hearing, when you see this picture? Hearing

  11. What words come to mind, describing sight, when you see this picture? Sight

  12. Poetic Devices • Rhyme • The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words.

  13. Poetic Devices • Exact Rhyme • The last sounds of words are exactly the same. • It is the sound not the spelling that is important. • Ex: • It so hard to decide, on this dream of mine • Jacob or Edward, they’re both really fine

  14. Poetic Devices • Slant Rhyme • The last word in a line of poetry does not rhyme exactly, but very close, with the last word of a line that follows it. • Ex: • Is he a boy, or a female singer • Oh wait, it’s Justin Beiber

  15. Poetic Devices • Rhyme Scheme • The sequence in which the rhyme occurs. The first end sound is represented as the letter "a", the second is "b", etc. Ex: You are beautiful, it’s true (a) There’s no one as beautiful as you (a) So even though time may be long(b) I will keep you in my song(b) And then I’ll call you my beau (a)

  16. Poetic Devices • Simile • Comparing two things using “like” or “as”. • Ex: • She is beautiful like a fresh bouquet of red roses.

  17. Poetic Devices • Metaphor • A figure of speech that says two very different things are the same • Comparing two things “without” using “like” or “as”. • Ex: • Her beauty is a bouquet of red roses • He is an angel for helping me with my homework.

  18. Poetic Devices • Alliteration • Using the repetition of a consonant (or consonant sound) to create a rhythm. • Ex: • Take time to talk through tough times and tears These are the teenage years

  19. Poetic Devices • Assonance • The repetition of a vowel (or vowel sound) within words to create a rhythm. • Ex: • Heeats everything in sight Even in the evening after night

  20. Poetic Devices • Onomatopoeia • The use of a word whose meaning suggests a sound • Ex: • The firework exploded and went Boom!

  21. Poetic Devices • Personification • A figure of speech which gives inanimate objects human traits or abilities. • Ex: The lyrics to the song grabbed me and would not let go.

  22. Poetic Devices • Repetition • the repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas. • Repetition is also called the “Refrain” in poetry.

  23. Meter • Meter (from the Greek metron, meaning measure) refers principally to the recurrence of regular beats in a poetic line. • In this way, meter pertains to the structure of the poem as it is written.

  24. Meter • The most common form of meter in English verse since the 14th century is accentual-syllabic meter, in which the basic unit is the foot. • A foot is a combination of two or three stressed and/or unstressed syllables.

  25. Meter • The following are the four most common metrical feet in English poetry: • IAMBIC • TROCHAIC • ANAPESTIC • DACTYLIC

  26. Meter • IAMBIC (iamb): an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, a pattern which comes closest to approximating the natural rhythm of speech.

  27. Meter • TROCHAIC (trochee): a stressed followed by an unstressed syllable • ANAPESTIC (anapest): two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable • DACTYLIC (dactyl): a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

  28. Meter • Meter also refers to the number of feet in a line: • Monometer (1) Hexameter (6)Dimeter (2)Trimeter (3)Tetrameter (4)Pentameter (5)

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