TYPES OF POETRY

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TYPES OF POETRY

• FORM, SOUND RHYTHM other clues to
  understanding poetry

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FORM Narrative

• Tells a story
• May take the form of a ballad
• Generally organized in stanzas regular rhythm,
  regular rhyme
• http//judithpordon.tripod.com/poetry/robert_frost
  _birches.html

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Lyric

• Conveys strong emotions impressions
• Not necessarily set to music
• http//www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Rudyard_Ki
  pling/kipling_if.htm

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Blank verse

• Regular metrical pattern
• Does not have regular rhyme scheme
• Used frequently by Shakespeare
• http//www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/07-blank-verse.h
  tm

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Free-verse

• Very few restrictions
• No set rhyme, rhythm or line length
• http//www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/24-free-verse.ht
  m

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Sonnet

• 14 lines of iambic pentameter
• 2 main types-
• Petrarchan or Shakespearean

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Petrarchan sonnets

• Also known as Italian
• Consists of an octave (eight lines w/regular
  rhyme scheme), followed by a sestet (six lines
  w/regular rhyme scheme)
• Mood is set in the octave, then changed in the
  sestet
• abba, abba, cde,cde
• http//www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm

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Shakespearean Sonnet

• Three quatrains ( 4 line stanzas with regular
  rhyme scheme), followed by rhyming couplet
• Mood developed in quatrains, and changed in
  couplet
• Abab, cdcd, efef, gg
• http//www.cranberrydesigns.com/poetry/sonnet/exam
  ples.htm

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Dramatic Monologue

• Narrator reveals info about him/herself through
  his/her own speech
• Usually written in blank verese
• http//www.towerpoetry.ca/talk-DMonologue.html

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Elegy

• A formal poem lamenting the death of an
  individual or group of people
• http//www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/elegy-written-in
  -a-country-churchyard.htm

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Epic

• A narrative poem that relates the mighty deeds or
  adventures of heroes ina lofty, majestic style
• http//listverse.com/2008/07/06/top-10-greatest-ep
  ic-poems/

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Haiku

• Three unrhymed lines
• Five syllables in the first line, seven syllables
  in the second and five in the third
• The final line resonates with more than one level
  of meaning
• Often about nature and passing of time
• http//www.international.ucla.edu/shenzhen/2002nct
  a/cunningham/Webpage-HaikuPoems.htm

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Concrete

• Arranged in a shape that enhances or reflects the
  topic
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SOUND

• Devices used to manipulate the meaning of the
  words through sound
• Alliteration,
• Assonance
• Cacophony
• Consonance
• Dialect
• Enjambment
• Euphony
• Repetition and refrain
• Rhyme
• http//www.poetry-online.org/poetry-terms.htm

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RHYTHM

• The beat of the words and the lines even prose
  lines have rhythm
• METER comes form the combination of stressed and
  unstressed syllables
• (Da-vid)
• FOOT the variety of recognizable rhythm patterns
  created by the particular combination of stressed
  and unstressed syllables- ( youll get a handout
  on this)

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OTHER CLUES

• METRICAL VARIATION
• Short lines usually cause a person to read
  SLLLLOOOOOOWWWWWLLLLYY
• Therefore, you dwell on the idea, word, etc
• Long lines- read the line more quickly to make it
  fit in the pattern of the rhythm used to give a
  feeling of lightness, speed, vigorous activity or
  urgency
• Changing a foot pattern is used for emphasis
• Two or more stressed syllables in a line
  emphasize the thought of each word and its
  relation to others
• Great irregularity in any one line usually
  indicates strong emotions

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OTHER CLUES

• LINE DIVISION
• Reasons for dividing lines or combining can vary
• To contain a complete thought
• To set off a strong image
• To emphasize a word or phrase
• To complete a thought started in a previous line
• To create irony or reverse an expectation