Poetry

Roses are red…violets are blue…

What is poetry?Poetry is a type of literature in which words are chosen and arranged in specific ways to create an effect.

Poetry Basics: Speaker

Just as a story has a narrator, a poem has a speaker – the voice that talks to the reader. It is important to remember that the poet and the speaker are not necessarily the same.

Poetry Basics: FormForm refers to the way that a poem is laid out on a page.

Poetry is divided into lines and stanzas.

A line is a group of words on a single line in a poem

A stanza is a group of lines in a poem

Sound Devices

The repetition of sounds

My Beard

by Shel Silverstein

My beard grows to my toes,

I never wears no clothes,

I wraps my hair

Around my bare,

And down the road I goes.

Internal rhyme- Words INSIDE the sentence rhyme.

End rhyme- the last word on each line rhymes.

Rhyming Patterns

• Rhyme Scheme:The pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. It

is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme

Example:Bid me to weep, and I will weep, (A)While I have eyes to see; (B)And having none, yet I will keep (A)A heart to weep for thee.(B)

Rhythm

The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem.

Words that spell out sounds; words that sound like what they mean.

Examples: growl, hiss, pop, boom, crack, ptthhhbbb.

The repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line.“tongue-twisters”.

Example: How much dew would a dewdrop drop if a dewdrop did drop dew?

ASSONANCE

• Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry.

Lake Fate Base Fade (All share the long “a” sound.)

CONSONANCE

• Similar to alliteration EXCEPT . . .

• The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words

“silken, sad, uncertain, rustling . . “

Tone/MoodTone is the author’s attitude towards a subjectMood is how the poem makes you feel