Poetic Device
This is where the consonant sound at the beginning of a word is repeated creating a rhythmic effect.
Alliteration
"Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun."
Funeral Blues
Which poem has 4 stanzas?
Funeral Blues
What is metrophobia?
Fear of poetry
The opposite of tone.
Mood
"Personally, I think it is overdone."
Consumer Report
Which poem has 8 stanzas
Did I Miss Anything?
True or false
German poet Gottlob Wilhelm Burmann spent over 17 years writing 130 poems entirely without using the letter "R."
True - He argued with someone whose name began with R.
Distinguish a simile from a metaphor.
A simile uses like or as; a metaphor does not.
"a shaft of light suddenly descended"
Did I miss anything?
Which poems have 2 stanzas?
American Cheese / Consumer Report
What is metromania
A compulsive desire to write poetry
When two line end word rhyme.
Couplet
"Don't deal in lies"
If
Which poem has 3 stanzas?
Search For My Tongue
What would this poem be famous for?
"Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last sabbath day of 1879
Which will be remember'd for a very long time."
Worst poem in history
The word stanza has a special meaning. What is it?
Room
"one by one"
American Cheese
What is the shortest poem ever?
2 words - Me, We - Ali