Poetry

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Poetry
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Form

• The physical arrangement of words on the page
• Some poetry is written in strict formal patterns
• Some poetry is written in free verse

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Stanza

• Lines of poetry are commonly grouped into
  stanzas, or groups of lines

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Free Verse

• Poetry that does not contain lines of regular
  rhyme or meter

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Is this this segment of poetry written in a
structured form or free verse?
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Love can not fill the thickened lung with
breath, Nor clean the blood, not set the
fractured bone Yet many a man is making friends
with death Even as I speak, for lack of love
alone. -Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sonnet 30
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Is this this segment of poetry written in a
structured form or free verse?
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she spun herself into a web and looking for a
place to rest turned to him but he stood
straight declining to be her corner -Nikki
Giovanni, Woman
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Alliteration

• A repetition of initial consonant sounds
• To jiggle and jump for joy

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Assonance

• A repetition of vowel sounds within words
• as in a greed is as deep as the sea

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Consonance

• A repetition of consonant sounds
• As in of fleet foot and sound mind

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Rhyme

• A repetition of final sounds in two or more words
• As in a stray gray tray

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Onomatopoeia

• The use of words that refer to sounds
• Such as snort, clank, and whir

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Rhythm

• The pattern, or beat in unstressed syllables in a
  line of poetry

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Meter

• The rhythm that is repeated throughout a poem

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Love is not all it is not meat nor drink Nor
slumber nor a roof against the rain Now yet a
floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink
and rise and sink again -Edna St. Vincent
Millay, Sonnet 30
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Figurative Language

• Language authors use to convey meaning meaning
  beyond the literal meanings of words
• Examples of these are simile, metaphor, and
  personification

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Simile

• A comparison between two things using like,
  as, or than
• Such as My life is like an open book

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Metaphor

• A comparison between two things that does not use
  like, as, or than
• Such as Jealousy is a green-eyed monster

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Personification

• Giving human qualities to something that is not
  human
• such as The teakettle ordered us back to the
  kitchen