Test will be on Friday, November 16th.

1.  rhythm –  the beat or cadence of poetry

Example:  But soft! What light through your window breaks?

2. rhyme –   two or more words which match in the same last sound

Example: cat/bat  or  flew/grew

3.  meter – the meter is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse

Example:  “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” from Shakespeare. The stressed syllables are capitalized.

[shall-I]-[com-PARE]-[thee-TO]-[a-SUM]-[mer’s-DAY]

4.  repetition – using a key word several times through a poem

Example:             Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn….

5. couplet –   two-line stanzas that rhyme

EX.    Don’t tell lions not to roar,
Don’t tell Granddad not to snore.

 6. haiku – lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables

Example:
Falling to the ground (5 syllables)
I watch a leaf settle down (7 syllables)
In a bed of brown. (5 syllables)

7. free verse – a flowing poem that does NOT have a particular pattern

Example:

Daybreak
Alarm rings
Mom enters
Sadness comes
I must get up

Joel Walton