William's Way
A poem made up of 14 lines in just 1 stanza.
What is a sonnet?
A poem made up of 5-15 rhyming lines.
What is a ghazal?
Poem made up of 4 line stanzas with a particular repeating pattern.
What is a pantoum?
The narrator of the poem - sometimes the poet, sometimes someone or something the poet is pretending to be.
Who is the speaker?
Translating what the speaker is saying, in your own words.
What is interpretation?
The last word of every line rhymes, creating a significant pattern.
What is a rhyme scheme?
Has a fixed number of syllables per line.
What is 12?
Repeated as the 1st and 3rd line in the next stanza.
What are the 2nd and 4th lines?
The time, day, place the poem speaks of.
What is the setting?
Figuring out what the poet means, and why poetic devices are used.
What is analysis?
The particular rhyme scheme for a Shakespearean type of this poem.
What is A B A B C D C D E F E F G G?
What is a couplet?
What is "Pantoum of the Great Depression"?
Describes what is happening in the poem.
What is the situation?
A tool that was designed to mine data for instant research, now misused as a substitute for thoughtful writing.
What is Artificial Intelligence or AI?
Shakespeare's topic of choice for this poetic form.
What is love?
A word is repeated in both lines of the 1st couplet, then only in the 2nd line of each succeeding set of rhyming lines.
What is the refrain?
What is "Parent's Pantoum"?
A clue about the poem's central idea.
What is the title?
Reference to a poet in a poem.
What is an allusion?
Each line is composed of only 10 stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
The central idea of this type of poem.
What is loss or longing?
The sunlight was falling. A part
Played out in the deep snow.
We were all there. At the start
We knew how the year would go,
What is "New Year's: A Short Pantoum"?
The central idea, main message, or life lesson the poet intends to reveal in writing the poem.
What is the theme?
A technique used by poets to enhance the meaning of their words.
What is a poetic device?