Poetry Literary Work Written In Verse

Sound Techniques Rhyme – word sounding the same as another – ending sound similar Rhyme Scheme – Pattern formed by rhyming lines

William Shakespeare When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable[1] curls all silvered o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded[2] up in sheaves[3], Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard; Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of 'time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake, And die as fast as they see others grow; And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe[4] can make defense, Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.

Sound Techniques Rhythm– pattern formed by syllables in the English language

Sound Techniques Meter – arranged pattern of rhythm (combination of syllables)

Sound Techniques Katie Alliteration – several words that begin with the same consonant sounds Katie

Format Stanza – a number of lines forming a separate unit within a poem. Paragraph of a Poem

Dylan Thomas – Stanza Example Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.

Format Couplet – two lines of verse that form a unit alone or as part of a poem –rhyme and have the same rhythm

William Shakespeare FROM ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA  Date: 1606 Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne! In thy vats our cares be drowned, With thy grapes our hairs be crowned;  Cup us, till the world go round,  Cup us, till the world go round!

Style Point of View – who is telling the story 1st person – character in the story; uses “I” 2nd person – the reader is in the story; uses “you” 3rd person – narrator tells the story

Style Author’s Tone -“voice” or attitude in the passage. Try to imagine the sound of the author's voice as if he/she were reading the passage out loud.

Style Author’s Style – it describes the ways that the author uses words — word choice sentence structure figurative language sentence arrangement.

Techniques Imagery – mental images created by words that allow you to experience the 5 senses

Types Ballad – a song or poem that tells a story Has a refrain (repeated phrase)

Types Lyric Poem expresses personal emotions or thoughts written directly to the reader about the author’s feelings It DOES NOT tell a story

Types Elegy – mournful lyric poem Musical lament for a dead person

The Soldier If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Types Sonnet – a short lyric poem with 14 lines strict rhyme scheme, Usually in standard meter

Types Ode – a lyric poem expressing emotion praises and glories an individual, event, or nature