Poetry I
Whatever happened to catchin' a good ol' fashioned *** whoopin'
- Eminem
Internal rhyme
There was an Old Man with a beard, / Who said, 'It is just as I feared! / Two Owls and a Hen, / Four Larks and a Wren, / Have all built their nests in my beard!
Limerick
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (the rhythm).
Meter
I come from a land of warm meals.
I come from a land of warm smiles.
I come from a land of warm firepaces.
Anaphora
When something happens that is the opposite of what you expect, often in a way that is amusing or strange.
Irony (situational, verbal, dramatic)
The test, which I would never pass,
Left me so aghast,
I thought I could focus, time went by so fast!
Slant Rhyme
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
Villanelle
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,
Imagery
What are two similar lines of poetry that end on the same sound?
Ex. "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
- Shakespeare
Couplet
He struck the clock with a quick flick
Consonance
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"
-Emily Dickinson
Personification
What is this meter called?
A wild goose sprung forth!
Iambic pentameter
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun."
Euphony
What do we call a rhyme scheme?
Ex. "The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day." - Robert Frost
ABAB rhyme scheme
What is this rhyme scheme called?
Why should | a dog, | a
horse, | a rat, | have life?
Trocheic pentameter