Poetic Styles and Genres [This is exclusively associated with poetry] Flashcards
Rhyme Scheme
Pattern of a poem’s rhyme. In analyzing a poem, the reader marks the rhyme capital letters; each identical letter is a rhyme.
Identify this rhyme scheme “There once was a very small teacher Diminutive, minuscule creature Who stood every day at the board and would say ‘Had a date once, but I couldn’t reach ‘her”
This limerick has an AABBA rhyme scheme
Meter
rhythm of a poem. THE BIG/GOLDEN TICKET ITEM HERE IS IAMBIC PENTAMETER
iamb pentameter
a metrical foot of two syllables with the accent on the second syllable Marie (YES) Mary (NO not an iamb) five
Iambic Pentameter
5 iambs per line “To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells”(John Keats via wikipedia)
Couplet
two consecutive rhyming lines in a poem AABBCCDD
Heroic Couplet
Has AABBCCDD rhyme structure but decides to up the game by ALSO USING IMABIC PENTAMETER (AHHHH) try to emulate epics
Identify the name of this rhyme scheme: “There is a bird I’ve often heard Who likes to drink Out of a sink”(Kaplan)
Couplet
Identify the name of this rhyme scheme: “There is a grand, majestic bird, I think Who sucks the living waters from the sink, And then with pinions through the azure skies He pauses–dabs his beak–and on he flies”
Heroic Couplet
Sonnet
14 lines of iambic pentameter and a specific rhyme scheme. Serious, usually discursive poem that deals with a unified idea in very little space You will probably see at least one on the test
Blank Verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter Often used by Renaissance playwrights [Shakespeare] but goes up to Robert Frost
Sprung Rhythm
A variety of set meters and a complex rhyme scheme. Fun fact: Gerard Manley Hopkins developed it in 19th century Uneven
Free Verse
no regular rhyme schemes or meter
Ode
An ode praises something still in existence
Identify what Poetic Style this is: “The world is charged with the grandeur of G-d. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Brownie Points if you can guess the author
Sprung Rhythm Gerard Manley Hopkins
Identify this poetic style “This lady I know Delightful In the light She soothes my Soul Marks everything Half off”
Free verse
Identify this poetic style “When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.” Guess the author
Sonnet shakespeare
“Thou still unravished bride of quietness Thou foster child of silence and slow time Sylvan historian….” This would be best categorized as a(an)
ode
Elegy
Honors someone dead
Ballad
narrative poem usually has a tragicomic tone tends to have 4 line long stanzas with an ABCBDEFE rhyme scheme
Concrete Poetry
Also called emblematic poetry, forms its words into pictures on the page, which generally relate to the theme
This poem is best categorized as a(an):
concrete poem
The following poem is best categorized as a(an):
“Sir Horsbreth held his sword up high;
It glistened like uranium.
But heavy was it also, as
It dropped upon his cranium”
A ballad
