Poetry Terms
Poem Title
Author
Rhyme Scheme
Alliteration/Simile/Metaphor/Hyperbole
(There may be 2)
100
A pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length.
couplet
100
Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them...
Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them... The Charge of the Light Brigade
100
Who wrote "All the World's a Stage" hint: He was a famous poet and a playwright.
William Shakespeare
100
"Forward, the Light Brigade!" Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew Someone had blunder'd: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
A, A, B, C, D, D, D, E, C
100
Tom tiredly trudged on
Alliteration
200
A phrase or line repeated at intervals within a poem, especially at the end of a stanza.
Refrain
200
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood
Road Not Taken
200
She was a famous American poet who chose to live alone. She used expressions to write her poems, which became famous after 4 years of her death(she died in 1886).
Emily Dickinson
200
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare.
Free Verse
200
No one was as lazy as he was.
Simile
300
Any poem expressing deep grief, usually at the death of a loved one or some other loss.
Lament
300
Nature's first green is gold...
Nothing gold can stay
300
He was born in March, 26, 1874. He was a poet and a teacher. He died in January 29, 1963 after a surgery complication.
Robert Frost
300
Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.
A, A, A, B, C, C, C, D, C, A, B
300
She sells sea shells by the sea shore
Alliteration
400
A fixed light-verse form of five generally anapestic lines rhyming AABBA.
Limerick
400
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
Mother to Son
400
He was a poet, novelist, and playwright. One of his poems was "Mother to Son."
Langston Hughes
400
When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honor the charge they made, Honor the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred.
A, A, B, A, A, B
400
My backpack weighs a ton!
Hyperbole
500
Scansion The analysis of the metrical patterns of a poem by organizing its lines into feet of stressed and unstressed syllables and showing the major pauses, if any. Scansion also involves the classification of a poem’s stanza, structure, and rhyme scheme.
Scansion
500
... And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
All the World's a Stage
500
Alfred, Lord Tennyson He was born in 1802 and died at an age of 83. He wrote the poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
500
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
A, B, A, A, B
500
He was a slow, sluggish sloth
Metaphor and Alliteration
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