STANZA
This stanza has three lines.
What is a triplet?
Boy, If I had a dime for every time I ———-, I’d be a millionaire!
What is rhyme?
A metrical line of poetry.
Example:
Iambic Pentameter
What is verse?
Elk River Falls is by this poet.
Excerpt:
"...before it picks up its song again, goes sliding around the massive rocks..."
Who is Billy Collins?
This form of comparison is evident in the line below:
"The night was as dark as my heart."
What is a simile?
Just the two of us,
we can make it if we try.
What is a couplet?
This verse has end rhyme and generally regular meter.
What is rhymed verse?
An unrhymed form of poetry that consists of about ten syllables where every other syllable, starting with the second, is stressed.
What is blank verse?
The Mower is by this poet.
Excerpt:
"The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found".
A main division of a long poem.
What is canto?
This stanza has been quartered considering how many lines there are.
What is a quatrain?
The literary technique used in these lines of poetry:
Go to bed,
your eyes are red.
What is end rhyme?
Poetry without regular meter or rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
The Road Not Taken is by this poet.
Excerpt:
"And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black".
Who is Robert Frost?
She interviewed Billy Collins. Author of What the Living Do.
Who is Marie Howe?
This stanza has as many lines as slices in pepperoni pizza.
What is an octave?
An example of rhyme:
Joyce, look at the book please.
What is internal rhyme?
An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic meter?
This poet lived from 1819 to 1892. He is known as the "father of free verse" and for his transcendentalism.
Who is Walt Whitman?
"My brother laughed maliciously— before the window glass shattered".
What is caesura?