1. Structural Elements of Poetry

2. Important Vocabulary
verse/stanza
rhyme scheme
imagery

3. Stanza/Verse a stanza/verse is like a paragraph in a poem
a group of lines in a poem that go together
a poem can have multiple stanzas or verses
stanzas or verses are separated by a blank line

4. How many stanzas? I threw a small water balloon. That’s all. I hid.
I tossed.
I ran.
My victim knows,
and lies in wait
with the garden hose.
Three stanzas/verses

5. Imagery a poet often writes poems to create word pictures
it is the readers job to create the pictures in their minds when they read the poems
it is sometimes a puzzle to figure out what the poet is describing

6. Imagery A crow stole the cone and six tiny sparrows hopped
vanilla footprints
across the sidewalk.
What event is this poem describing?
What happened to the ice cream cone someone dropped

7. Rhyme Scheme
a rhyme scheme describes in letters the pattern that the poems follows
each line of the poem is assigned a letter that matches the other line it rhymes with
EX. AABB or ABAB etc.

8. Name the Rhyme Scheme I saw a very pretty dog
But he was a bit cautious
He had gotten lost in the fog
And now was a bit nauseous
ABAB