Stanzas
What is a stanza?
A group of lines in a poem.
What type of poem does not use rhyme or patterns?
Free verse
What is a nonsense poem?
A humorous poem that is meant to be fun.
Look at the example below:
H old onto your dream while mindful of time.
O ptimism required, let your light shine.
P ersistence prevails, while some may cast doubt.
E xpectation desired is what it's about.
What type of poem is this?
An acrostic poem
A ________ is a stanza or poem with two lines.
Couplet
In an __________ poem, the first letter of each line spells the subject of the poem.
What type of poem is 14 lines and has a clear rhyme scheme?
A sonnet
Look at the example below:
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
What type of poem is this?
Free verse
A _________ is a stanza with four lines.
Quatrain
What is a concrete poem?
A poem written in the shape of its subject.
Limerick
Look at the example below:
There's this subject called chemistry
how it works is a total mystery
it is an atom
says my madam
but all I see is my misery
What type of poem is this?
A limerick
Look at the example below:
Who wants my jellyfish?
I’m not sellyfish!
What type of stanza is this?
A couplet.
A poem that tells a story and is often meant to be sung is called a:
Ballad
Haiku poems are about the theme of __________.
Nature
Look at the example below:
An old silent pond
A frog jumps into the pond—
Splash! Silence again.
What type of poem is this?
A haiku
Look at the example below:
How thin and sharp is the moon tonight!
How thin and sharp and ghostly white
Is the slim curved crook of the moon tonight!
What type of stanza is this?
A tercet.
A _________ is a poem with 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
Haiku
When poets make up words or misspell them on purpose, they are using _______ ________.
Word play
Look at the example below:
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.
What type of poem is this?
A sonnet