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This document provides a general overview of the elements of poetry, like stanzas, rhyme schemes, and rhythm. It explores different types of poems and their structures. It's useful material for poetry students learning about these concepts.
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Poetry Literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. Epic of Gilgamesh - oldest surviving poem; unknown origin. ▪ Gilgamesh - king of Uruk Elements of Poet...
Poetry Literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. Epic of Gilgamesh - oldest surviving poem; unknown origin. ▪ Gilgamesh - king of Uruk Elements of Poetry: a. Stanza - group of lines forming a basic metric unit of a poem Purpose: ▪ Structure ▪ Pattern - rhyme ▪ Organization - explore thought ▪ Set a mood - feelings ▪ Shape - symbolism Types: ▪ Couplet - 2 line (both rhyme) ▪ Tercet - 3 line (1st and 3rd line rhyme) ▪ Quatrain - 4 line ▪ Cinquain - 5 line ▪ Sestet - 6 line ▪ Septet - 7 line ▪ Octave - 8 line b. Rhyme A rhyme scheme is the pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of line or stanza. Rhyme schemes can change line by line, stanza by stanza, or can continue throughout a poem. Alternate rhyme: Numbers, Dream! Slumbers, Seem. Monorhyme: Night Light Bright Coupled rhyme: Lot Not Season Reason Tight Right All Small c. Rhythm The beat and pace of a poem Pattern of stressed and unstressed beats or syllables Associated with meter (units of stressed and unstressed syllables) d. Meter ▪ Lamb - an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable ▪ Trochee - a stressed syllable, followed by an unstressed syllable ▪ Dactyl - a stressed syllable, followed by 2 unstressed syllables ▪ Anapset - 2 unstressed syllables, followed by a stressed syllable ▪ Spondee - 2 stressed syllables ▪ Pyrrhic - 2 unstressed syllables e. Tone and Mood The writer's attitude toward the subject, poem's speaker (persona) or audience. Often described as a "mood" that affects the reader's experience of reading the poem, the interpretation is created by the poem's vocabulary, rhyme, and figurative language. f. Figurative language It is the use of words that are not conventional or literal. More impactful, more persuasive text. Figures of speech such as simile, metaphors, and allusion go beyond the literal meanings of the words to give readers new insights. On the other hand, alliteration, imageries, or onomatopoeias are figurative devices that appeal to the senses of the readers.
