Poetry Terms

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Poetry Terms

• Using
• Casey at the Bat
• by
• Ernest Lawrence Thayer

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Rhyme Scheme
couplet
couplet
This poem is divided into stanzas of four lines,
with two couplets (2 lines in which the last word
rhymes) in each stanza.
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Rhyme Scheme 2
a
a
b
b
Rhyme scheme is labeled using letters. Each
letter stands for a new rhyme. The rhyme scheme
of this stanza is aabb.
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Meter
Meter is measured by looking at the syllables in
a line of poetry.
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Meter 2
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14
The first line has fourteen syllables. The other
lines follow the same pattern.
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Meter 3
/
/
/
/
/
/
/
Every other syllable is stressed, or said louder.
Stressed syllables are marked with an accent
mark, and unstressed syllables are marked with an
arc.
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Meter 4
/
The out
Two syllables that consist of an unstressed first
syllable and a stressed second syllable is called
an IAMB.
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Meter 5
A Quick Lesson in Greek (Yes, Greek) A pentagon
is a 5-sided figure, so penta means .An
sextagon is a 6-sided figure, so sexta means
.A heptagon is a 7-sided figure, so hepta means
.An octagon is an 8-sided figure, so octa
means .
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6
7
8
Remember this, especially the Greek word for 7--
HEPTA
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Meter 6
/
/
1 2 3 4
5 6 7
/
/
/
/
/
There are 7 iambs in this line.
Now here is the really cool term for this. . .
IAMBIC HEPTAMETER
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Alliteration
There is another poetry technique we can see in
this poem. Two words that start with the same
letter very close together is called ALLITERATION.
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Test Yourself
Casey at the Bat is a poem made up of four line
_________. Each ________ consists of two rhyming
_________, so the rhyme scheme is _________.
There are 7 ________ in each line, so it is
written in ________________. The first stanza
also has two or more words close together
beginning with the same sound. This is called
____________.
stanzas
stanza
couplets
iambs
aabb
iambic heptameter
alliteration
You got them all, didnt you?
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By Linda MacCleaveIntroduction to Casey at the
Bat