Basics of Poetry

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Poetry Definition

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• A literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm
• Poems collectively or as a genre of literature

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Stanza Definition

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• A unit of lines of verse with recurring meter and rhyme - or variants of them - used in an established pattern of repetition and separation in a poem

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What is a Isometric Stanza

A type of stanza (three types)

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• Made up of lines of the same length

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Heterometric Stanza

A type of stanza (three types)

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• Made up of lines of different lengths

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Quasi-stanzaic

A type of stanza (three types)

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• A loose grouping of lines and paragraphs of verse

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Line Defintion

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• One line within a poem; doesn’t necessarily have to be a completely sentence

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Verse Definition

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• A single line of poetry or a group of lines that form a stanza;often used to describe a peom’s structure through its organized patterns

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Free Verse

Different kinds of verse’s (three kinds)

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• No specific meter or rhyme scheme

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Blank Verse

Different kinds of verse’s (three kinds)

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• Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, commonly used in English dramatic and narrative poetry

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Rhymed Verse

Different kinds of verse’s (three kinds)

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• Follows a specific rhyme scheme, like couplets or sonnets

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Verse Form Definition

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• Focuses on technical and structural elements of a poem (i.e. meter, syllables, rhyme scheme)

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Poetic Form Definition

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• Focuses on the category of a poem’s structure, which includes verse fform but also patterns of stanza and stylistic choices (i.e. sonnet, ballad, villanelle)

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Meter Definition

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• The rhythmic structure of a verse or lines of a verse

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Accentual Meter

Different kinds of Meters (three kinds)

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• The stresses are counted, and the syllables are variable

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Syllabic Meter

Different kinds of Meters (three kinds)

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• The syllables are counted, the stresses are varied

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Accentual-Syllabic Meter

Different kinds of Meters (three kinds)

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• Both accents and syllables are measured and counted; most dominant metrical form

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Poetic Foot Definition

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• A measured unit of meter made up of stressed and unstressed syllables
• (ex. iamb: consists of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)

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Rhyme Scheme Definition

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• The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
• Usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme. Lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with eachother

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Slant Rhyme Definition

Examples of a Rhyme scheme

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• When words have similar sounds but do not exactly rhyme. These sort of rhymes fit into a standard rhyme scheme

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Tone Definition

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• The quality of a piece of writing that reveals the attitudes and feelings of the author

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Mood Definition

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• The feeling a reader experiences while reading a piece of writing

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Point of View Definition + Examples

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• The narrator and method by which they tell the story, which controls the reader’s access to the events happening
• First person (“The Yellow Wallpaper”)
• Second Person (“The Hawk”)
• Third-Person Omniscient (Pride and Prejudice)
• Third-Person Limited (Kindred)