Forms
Form of poetry that expresses strong thoughts and feelings.
Lyric Poetry
2 lines
couplet
It is a series of lines grouped together and separated by an empty line
Stanza
Who is the author of Sonnet 116?
William Shakespeare
How many speakers can be portrayed on a lyric poetry?
cinquain
5 lines
It is also known as the style of a poetry.
Form
Identify the theme:
When I too long have looked upon your face,
Wherein for me a brightness unobscured
Save by the mists of brightness has its place,
And terrible beauty not to be endured,
Love
It uses elaborate imagery and adjectives.
Descriptive Poetry
8 lines
octave
Repetition of similar sounds
Rhyme
Identify the subject:
When I too long have looked upon your face,
Wherein for me a brightness unobscured
Save by the mists of brightness has its place,
And terrible beauty not to be endured,
Woman
It is a poem that tells a story
Narrative Poetry
tercet
3 lines
It can identified by the way in which you use diction, syntax, rhyme, meter, and so forth.
Tone
Identify the persona:
When I too long have looked upon your face,
Wherein for me a brightness unobscured
Save by the mists of brightness has its place,
And terrible beauty not to be endured,
First Person
What is the structure of a Narrative Poetry
introduction of conflict and characters, rising action, climax and the denouement.
seven lines
septet
What are the forms of poetry
Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative
Identify the Rhyme Scheme:
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
A-B-A-B or ABAB