Types of Poem Flashcards
Villanelle
def: 5 stanzas with 3 lines ending with quatrain
One Art: Elizabeth Bishop
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night: Dylan Thomas
Free Verse
def: no structure or rules but still rhymthem
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed: Walt Whitman
The Noiseless, Patient Spider: Walt Whitman
Shine, Perishing Republic: Robinson Jeffers
Howl: Allen Ginsberg
Blank Verse
def: verse without rhyme but uses iambic pentameter
To Be or Not to Be: William Shakespeare
Thanatopsis: William Cullen Bryan
Mending Wall: Robert Frost
argument sonnet
def: iambic pentameter with octave and sestet
Design: Robert Frost
The World is Too Much With Us: William Woodsworth
When I consider how my light is spent (sonnet 19): John Milton
The Shakespearean Sonnet
def: sonnet with rhyme scheme of ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Sonnet 73 (person dying with comps to the sky, fire, and autumn), 94 (people have lots of power but turn bad, are really bad), 106 (poets in past didn’t do her justice), 130 (bad comparisons, still love her): William Shakespeare
Italian Sonnet
def: sonnet with ABBAABBACDCDCD or ABBAABBACDECDE
Astrophil and Stella 1 (getting her to pity him to love him and studied others to win her over) and Astrophil and Stella IX (compares her to all these good things, is attracted to her): Sir Philip Sidney
Whoso List to hint, I know where is a hund: Thomas Wyatt
Ode
def: praise or celebration of a person, event, object, or idea
Ode to a Grecian Urn: John Keats
the quatrain (rubaiyat)
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening: Robert Frost
lyric poem
def: expresses personal emotions, thoughts, and feelings
Fern Hill: Dylan Thomas
Loveliest of Trees the Cherry Now: AE Houseman
If I Could Tell You: W.H. Auden
So We’ll Go No More a Roving: Lord Byron
Old Yew that Graspest at the stones: Lord Tennyson
essay (couplets)
a little learning is a dangerous thing: alexander pope
satirical elegy
def: combines elements of satire and elegy, instead of expressing genuine sorrow, they employ satire to mock or criticize the subject matter
a satirical elegy on the death of the late famous general: Jonathan Swift
