More About Poetry About Sonnets Petrarchan (Italian) Types Shakesperean (English) Has 14 lines 3 groups of 4 lines (quatrains) and a couplet (a two-line stanza that usually rhymes with an end rhyme). Petrarchan (Italian) Has an octave and a sestet
Some Poetry Examples Anapest - “Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house” Trochee - “Double, double toil and trouble” Dactyl - “Take her up tenderly”
About Ballads A story in a song. Examples include early poems that we learn as children.
Lyric Poems A story told with the poet playing upon a lyre. Example: Daffodils
Heroic Couplets Firmly end-stopped and written in iambic pentameter. Example :The Iliad The Odyssey Couplet again means a two-line stanza that usually rhymes with an end-rhyme.
Dramatic Monologues vs Apostrophe Poems that address another person who remains silent. Apostrophes A direct address of someone or something that is not there.
Limerick Five lines using anapest meter with the rhyme scheme aabba. A memorable, but less developed example are the ones which begin with - “There was a young...”, or in a similar way. Elegy Lament for death or the passing of love or a concept.
More on Anapests: Looking at Feet The anapest is a type of poetry foot consisting of two unstressed syllables and a stressed syllable. Twas the NIGHT is a single anapestic foot Twas [unaccented] the [unaccented] NIGHT [accented] or the following notation can be used: ˘ ˘ ¯ Back to Some Poetry Examples
Further explanations: Meters and Feet Meter is a comparatively regular rhythm in a poem, verse, or song. It is composed of syllables or units of sound. For example Back to Some Poetry Examples
Syllables A syllable is a unit of sound. For example, the word, flower has two syllables flo-wer Syllables influence the rhythm of language and are composed of stressed (accented) and unstressed (unaccented) elements. Flo-wer: two syllables with first stressed and second unstressed - The following notation is sometimes used: ¯ ˘ Back to Some Poetry Examples