1. AP Test Poetry Review
April 20, 2018

2. What is Poetry? Poetry is separated from prose by four major qualities
Syllable usage
Feet
Lines
Stanzas

3. Feet
The foot is a pattern of syllables which make up the building blocks of poetry.
There are 5 types of poetic feet

4. The line A poetic line is determined by the number of feet
1 foot: monometer
2 feet: dimeter
3 feet: trimeter
4 feet: tetrameter
5 feet: pentameter
6 feet: hexameter
Etc……

5. How many stressed syllables are in each line?
Iambic pentameter
Dactylic trimeter
Anapestic dimeter
Spondaic monometer
Trochaic tetrameter

6. Rhyme and Rhyme scheme
Roses are red, Violets are blue. I’m learning about poetry, And so should you.

7. Assignment Write a sestet about your word Put it in iambic pentameter
Must have a regular rhyme scheme (rhyming couplets, abcabc, etc.)
Due Monday!

8. Types of Structured Poetry
Most poetry falls into one of two major categories:
NARRATIVE POETRY tells a story
LYRIC POETRY presents a personal impression.

9. The ballad A narrative that was originally spoken or sung. Simple
Sometimes incorporates dialogue
Usually written in quatrains
Basic rhyme scheme
Two lines of iambic tetrameter which alternate with two lines of iambic trimeter

10. Bonny Barbara Allen (Ballad)
IT was in and about the Martimas time, When the green leaves were a falling, That Sir John Graeme in the west country Fell in love with Barbara Allan. He sent his man down through the town, To the place where she was dwelling, O haste, and come to my master dear, Gin ye be Barbara Allan. O hooly, hooly rose she up. To the place where he was lying, And when she drew the curtain by, Young man, I think you're dying.

11. The lyric
Lyric poetry is highly personal and emotional. It can be as simple as just senses

12. A Red Red Rose
O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve is like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune. So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry. Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi’ the sun; I will love thee still, my dear, While the sands o’ life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only luve! And fare thee weel awhile! And I will come again, my luve, Though it were ten thousand mile.

13. The ode
A formal lyric that addresses a subject of elevated stature.

14. Ode to the West Wind
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With living hues and odours plain and hill: Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear!

15. Elegy
A formal lyric poem written in honor of one who has died.

16. Dramatic Monologue
Relates an episode in the speaker’s life through a conversational format that reveals the character at the speaker.

17. Porphyria’s Lover – Robert Browning
The rain set early in to-night, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its worst to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up, and all the cottage warm; Which done, she rose, and from her form Withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl, And laid her soiled gloves by, untied Her hat and let the damp hair fall, And, last, she sat down by my side And called me. When no voice replied, She put my arm about her waist, And made her smooth white shoulder bare, And all her yellow hair displaced, And, stooping, made my cheek lie there, And spread, o'er all, her yellow hair, Murmuring how she loved me — she Too weak, for all her heart's endeavour, To set its struggling passion free From pride, and vainer ties dissever, And give herself to me for ever.

18. Sonnet Most popular fixed form in poetry
Usually written in iambic pentameter
Two types: the Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnet, and the English (or Shakespearean) sonnet

19. Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet FOrm

20. Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet Form
Sonnet 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

21. English/Shakespearean Sonnet Form

22. English/Shakespearean Sonnet Form
Sonnet 18, by William Shakespeare 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.