A form of poetry without any kind of pattern.
What is free verse?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.
'We are nearer to Spring
han we were in September,"
I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December.
What is ABAB ABAB?
A lyrical poem meant to celebrate something.
What is an ode?
The repetition of the sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme?
What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
What is assonance?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative?
What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again
What is repetition?
ID THREE examples of personification in the poem:
Have you got a brook in your little heart,
Where bashful flowers blow,
And blushing birds go down to drink,
And shadows tremble so?"
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
What is the rhyme scheme?
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;
What is ABAAB?
A poem containing three elements and which may be put to music: a narrator, repetition, and is often about an unhappy experience or an event that happened in the past.
What is a ballad?
What is the rhyme scheme of this passage:
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal of Grace.”
What is ABBA
What form of poetry is this? Why?
O mighty car, with wheels that glide,
Through rain and sun, you're by our side,
You carry dreams on open roads,
With humming heart and heavy loads—
To you, we sing our grateful tune,
Our chariot 'neath the silver moon.
What is an ode to cars, because it is praising or giving thanks for a car.