Poetry - Form, Structure

Question 1

poetry - form/structure

Answer 1

1-lines
2-stanzas
3,rhyme scheme
4-rhythm

Question 2

lines

Answer 2

• ideas in poetry often wrap to the next line, so it must be read following the punctuation, not the line breaks

Question 3

stanzas

Answer 3

• breaks between groups of lines. some poems are only one stanza

Question 4

rhyme scheme

Answer 4

• the ending rhyme of each line. some poems do not rhyme. to determine a “rhyme scheme” use lowercase alphabet letters and give a letter to each different line rhyme. lines that have the same rhyme have the same alphabet letter

Question 5

rhythm

Answer 5

• the arrangement of stressed and unstressed word syllables
• if stressed and unstressed syllabes are predictable, the poem has meter
• if not. the poem is free verse

Question 6

what are the stressed syllables in the first line of Wordsworth’s “A Night Thought”? (3 stanzas)

Answer 6

• where - moon - long - sky

- lo - the - a - the (unstressed)

Question 7

what is the rhyme scheme of Frost’s poem “Fragmentary Blue”? (has meter)

Answer 7

• frost uses a rhyme scheme of abba cbbc

Question 8

how many stanzas is Rober Frost’s poem “Fragmentary Blue”?

Answer 8

• two stanzas

Question 9

what is the rhyme scheme of the second stanza of Wordsworth’s “A Night Thought”?

Answer 9

• aaabab