Poetic Terms
A block of text in a poem is called a
Stanza
My name is Ozymandias king of
kings
Which insect does she look like?
A bumblebee
Fra Pandolf's hands/Worked busily a day.
My Last Duchess
When a line overlaps with another line this is called
enjambment
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness
Marks of woe
Where is her favourite playground?
The graveyard
Pale flakes with fingering stealth
Exposure
When there is a break in the middle of a line it is a
Caesura
In his darkroom he is finally alone
With spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
The only light is red and softly glows
What does she like to lean against like a wishbone?
A war memorial
Half a league onward
Charge of the Light Brigade
The name of a poem with 14 lines with ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme (usually) is called a
Sonnet
Dem tell me bout Columbus and 1492
but what happen to de
Caribs and de Arawaks too
What can she hear on the wind?
The ghostly voices of children
Remains
When a poem is written with ten syllables per line it is called
Iambic Pentameter
And one of them legs it up the road,
probably armed, possibly not
Why are we studying her "poetry"?
She won a competition (2000 + applicants)!
leaned against it like a wishbone
POPPEZ!