Structure
Words that end in the same sound
What is rhyme?
Is this a stanza or a line?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
stanza
Is this a haiku or a lyric poem?
From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay;
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod.
All by myself I have to go,
With none to tell me what to do—
All alone beside the streams
[44]And up the mountain-sides of dreams.
The strangest things are there for me,
Both things to eat and things to see,
And many frightening sights abroad
Till morning in the land of Nod.
Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can remember plain and clear
The curious music that I hear.
lyric poem
Repeated words and phrases in a poem
What is repetition
Is this a stanza or a line?
Nameless here for evermore.
line
Is this a haiku or a lyric poem?
On a branch
floating downriver
a cricket, singing.
Haiku
Comparing two things without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
What is a line?
a string of words in a poem
How many syllables does a haiku have in each line?
5, 7, 5
Comparing two things using like or as
What is a simile?
What is a stanza?
Two or more lines of poetry that form a unit in the poem
What is one way that lyric poetry sounds like music?
Hint: name a type of figurative language
Rhyme
Name two types of figurative language in this poem:
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
repetition
rhyme
The boys were two peas in a pod
metaphor
The farmers are happy as a king and queen
simile