Poetry Elements
Words that end in the same sound
Rhyme
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
Simile
This type of poem tells information about yourself
Bio poem
This type of poem is created in the shape of whatever it describes.
Concrete poem
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won
O Captain! My Captain!
by Walt Whitman
The musical quality of a poem using alliteration, meter, repetition, or rhyme.
Rhythm
The author's attitude towards the writing and audience.
Tone
This type of poem is structured in the shape of a diamond and changes subjects from the beginning to the end.
Diamante
This type of poem expresses a person's feelings. It may or may not be set to music or rhyme.
Lyrics
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
The Raven
By Edgar Allen Poe
A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains.
Stanza
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words.
Alliteration
This is a 5-line humorous poem with a beat and a rhyme scheme AABBA.
Limerick
This is a humorous poem in the form of lyrics that mirrors something that has already been created.
Parody
They say, "The holy water's watered down
And this town's lost its faith
Our colors will fade eventually"
So, if our time is runnin' out
Day after day
We'll make the mundane our masterpiece
Ordinary
by Alex Warren
The patterns of rhymes. A letter is assigned to each end of the line, if they rhyme, the have the same letter.
Rhyme Scheme
The emotion that you feel while you are reading.
Mood
This type of poem allows the writer to freely express themselves in any shape of form.
Free Verse
This is a form of poetry where each letter of a subject begins the line of the poem
All that time
I sat alone in my tower
You were just honing your powers
Now I can see it all
Late one night
You dug me out of my grave and
Saved my heart from the fate of
Ophelia
The Fate of Ophelia
by Taylor Swift
The message about anything in a poem.
Theme
Giving things that are not human the personalities and characteristics of humans.
Personification.
This is a Japanese poem that is usually about nature, and has 3 lines of
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
Haiku
This is an early form of poetry that tells a story, sometimes in song.
Ballad
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost