Poetry vs

Understanding Poetry: Forms, Meter, and Structure

• Prose is a style of writing in which words are combined into sentences, while poetry is a deliberate use of language to convey an idea or feeling.
• Poetry follows certain standards such as meter, rhyming schemes, stanzas, and form, while prose may not be deliberate in its use of these elements.
• Poetic form refers to the style of poetry that determines its characteristics, such as meter and style.
• Examples of poetic forms include couplets and haikus.
• A couplet is a form of poetry with two rhyming lines placed close together, while a haiku is a Japanese poetry form with a specific structure of three lines and a syllable pattern.
• Other types of poems include sonnets, which have one stanza and are written in iambic pentameter, and blank verse, which has no rhyming scheme but a specific meter.
• Free form poetry, also known as free-verse poetry, has no guidelines or restrictions on meter, rhyme scheme, or stanzas.
• Meter refers to the rhythm or cadence of a poem, which is created by organizing syllables with emphasis.
• The four most common feet in meter are the iamb, trochee, dactyl, and anapest feet.
• The iamb is the most common foot, with an unstressed-stressed syllable pattern, while the trochee is the opposite, with a stressed-unstressed pattern.
• Poetic structure includes elements such as rhyme scheme and stanza.
• Rhyme schemes are designated by letters of the alphabet, and stanzas are isolated sections of a poem that can vary in length and number.