Poem Structure

1. Poem Structure Ashley Hazel Alexis Simmons Amaris Hudson

2. Structure is how a poem is written. • the number of stanzas • the number of syllables • how many lines the poem has. Structure

3. Stanza - a group of lines in a poem. • ex. A sonnet has 14 lines, 3 quatrains (4 line stanzas) and a couplet ( 2 line stanza) at the end. • Iambic pentameter - a line of five feet of iambs (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable) • Couplets – stanzas with two rhyming lines. • Tercets - stanzas with three lines. • Quatrains - stanzas with four lines. Components That Make Structure

4. Examples of Structure

5. Sonnet • A sonnet is composed of 14 lines. • There are 3 quatrains • One couplet • The rhyme scheme is ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest, Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 Notice in the first quatrain the first line rhymes with the third line and the second line rhymes with the fourth line. This is the rhyme scheme. Each stanza is highlighted a different color. There are 4 stanzas (3 are 4 lines and one is 2 lines. “Shall” is a unstressed syllable and “I” is a stressed syllable therefore this poem is in iambic pentameter.

6. Musical and sweet, the villanelle,like light reflected in a gentle rhyme,moves to the ringing of a silver bell, • Its form creating soft and tender spells.Like the singing of distant silver chimes,musical and sweet, the villanelle • Flows through the heart, and builds a magic spellfrom sunlight and from shadows, and, sublime,moves to the ringing of a silver bell. • It never arcs into the sharp loud yellof vast pipe organs. Soft its climb.Musical and sweet, the villanelle, • Like a tiny and translucent shellcatching sunlight in the summer time,moves to the ringing of a silver bell. • Soft and gentle, tender and so frail,like light pouring through petals of the lime,musical and sweet, the villanellemoves to the ringing of a silver bell. Villanelle A villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The form is made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain. The first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poem's two concluding lines. Using capitals for the refrains and lowercase letters for the rhymes, the form could be expressed as: A1 a A2 / b c A1 / d e A2 / f g A1 / h iA2 / j k A1 A2.

7. A Caffeinated Life I've reached beyond those limits that bound Andsearchedaround‘tilIfinallyfoundThePinnacleofRealityIsinmyuttermortalityAnd so what I've found is simply the ground Limerick Limerick poems are five lines that are usually witty and specific. The rhyme scheme of a limerick poem is AABBA.

8. Identify These Poems and Their Structure

9. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage, against the dying of the light. Though Wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. How many lines does it have? 19 What type of poem is it? villanelle What is the rhyme scheme? ABA, ABA, ABA, ABA, ABA, ABAA Is it in iambic pentameter? yes How many quatrains does it have? 1 How many stanzas does it have? 6 What isthe stanza of three lines called? Tercet

10. Four seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of Man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span: He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring's honeyed cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close; contented so to look On mists in idleness -to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook: - He has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forgo his mortal nature. What type of poem is this? sonnet What is the rhyme scheme? ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG Is it in iambic pentameter? yes How many stanzas does it have? 4

11. A poem presenting with rhymeand which follows a rhythm in timeneed not be what we calla true Limerick at alllike a lemon, the cousin of lime.Yet a limerick a lemon can be, you could use a small slice for your tea.Do not use it in fudge and respect that the judgeis the man with no writing degree. Herbert Nehrlich What type of poem is this? Limerick What is the rhyme scheme? AABBA CCDDC Is it in iambic pentameter? yes