Shifts and Structure

Shifts - Name The Song

100

The song shifts from feeling like a stranger in LAX to feeling comfortable and excited when the music starts. 

Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus 

200

The character shifts from trying to hide her powers and stay in control to letting go, being herself, and embracing her powers. 

Let it go - Frozen

300

The song shifts from quietly talking about being unhappy in a relationship to becoming angry, loud, and finally choosing to move on.

Happier Than Ever - Billie Eilish

400

The song shifts from feeling unsure about leaving home and questioning where you belong to wanting to explore and discovering that there’s more out there for you.

Where You Are - Moana

500

The song starts calm and reflective about a breakup, then shifts into a much darker, more intense, and angry mood as the singer imagines getting revenge.

Kill Bill - SZA

Shifts - Name The Character

100

“ I used to float, now I just fall down… What was I made for? “ 

 

Barbie

200

”…his heart grew three sizes that day”

The Grinch

300

A thief decides his treasure isn’t as important as love 

Flynn Rider

400

A genius/billionaire/playboy/philanthropist realizes the team is the only way to save earth; it‘s not just about him.

Tony Stark 

500

A hero decides it’s best to stay close to home and protect his neighborhood 

Peter Parker

When does the Shift happen ?Real Poetry

100

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.

by Robert Frost

Has given my heart 

A change of mood

200

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

By Emma Lazarus 

and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome

300

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
    That mark our place; and in the sky
    The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
    Loved and were loved, and now we lie
        In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
    The torch; be yours to hold it high.
    If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
        In Flanders fields.

By John McCrae

Take up our quarrel with the foe

400

If I should die, think only this of me:

      That there’s some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England. There shall be

      In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

      Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;

A body of England’s, breathing English air,

      Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

      A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

            Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

      And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

            In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

By Rupert Brooke

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

500

The Battle fought between the Soul
And No Man -- is the One
Of all the Battles prevalent --
By far the Greater One --

No News of it is had abroad --
Its Bodiless Campaign
Establishes, and terminates --
Invisible -- Unknown --

Nor History -- record it --
As Legions of a Night
The Sunrise scatters -- These endure --
Enact -- and terminate --

By Emily Dickinson

No News of it is had abroad --

Structure -lines, stanzas, meter etc

100

“About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.”

 By W.H Auden

Stanza

200

Whose bird is that? I think I know.
Its owner is quite sad though.
It really is a tale of woe,
I watch her frown. I cry hello.

Rhyme

300

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”

By Edgar Allan Poe

Meter

400

“Hope is the thing with feathers”
“That perches in the soul”

By Emily Dickinson

Line

500

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep.”

By Robert Frost

Rhyme

Shifts and Structure - Definitions

100

Groups of lines in a poem

Stanza

200

The rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem 

Meter

300

A sudden change in the speaker’s tone, focus, or attitude that changes the meaning of the text

Shift 

400

The basic building block of a poem, consisting of one row of words.

Line

500

The planned pattern at the ends of lines.

Rhyme Scheme