1. Metaphor, Simile, Symbolism, Dramatic Verbs, Assonance, Consonance, Even Perhaps a Touch of Rhyme
Free Verse vs. Rhyme

2. Free Verse
One type of poetry that does not use strict meter or rhyme; however, it still looks like poetry because there are complex patterns. Free verse poetry has a long history
"Free verse offers a writer an amazing palette: metaphor, simile, dramatic verbs, assonance, consonance, even perhaps a touch of rhyme slipped into the lines," said Kristine O'Connell George
In free verse the writer makes his/her own rules. The writer decides how the poem should look, feel, and sound.
Henry David Thoreau, a great philosopher, explained it this way, ". . . perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." It may take you a while to "hear your own drummer," but free verse can be a great way to "get things off your chest" and express what you really feel.

3. Rhyme Rhyme – sound alike endings of words
End rhyme – At the end of lines, words rhyme.
EX. Jars and cans lined the rack; They tumbled down on my back
Internal rhyme – Words that rhyme are int the middle of the line.
EX. I carry a gold locket in my pocket.
Your sonnets were rhyme poetry with an end rhyme
---think back to the rhyme scheme---
abab cdcd efef gg

4. Ten basic poetry techniques
Simile – a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
Ex. She is beautiful like the morning sun.
Metaphor – a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as
Ex. Frank is a fox.
Symbolism– A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level.
Ex. Consider the stop sign.
Alliteration –at the beginning of words, there is a repetition of consonants
Ex. The swimmer's skin sizzled in the sun.
Assonance – anywhere in the words, there is a repetition of vowels
Ex. Please bake me a date cake.
Consonance – anywhere in words, there is repetition of consonant sounds
Ex. Write a great paper by the due date.
Onomatopoeia – words that sound like the name of the word
Ex. The cereal snapped, crackled, and popped.

5. like the end of a Popsicle: instead of one last lick --
Find an example of alliteration, assonance, and simile in Sunday Night Meltdown.
Sunday Night Meltdown
by Kristine O'Connell George
Suddenly remembering
(on Sunday night)
that I have homework
due Monday morning.
The end of my weekend,
like the end of a Popsicle:
instead of one last lick --
a taste of stick.

6. Answers… Alliteration: Assonance Simile: due Monday morning.
Suddenly remembering
Simile:
The end of my weekend, like the end of a Popsicle: instead of one last lick -- a taste of stick.

7. Examples of Free Verse Poetry

8. I Dream'd in a Dream by Walt Whitman
I DREAM'D in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth, I dream'd that was the new city of Friends, Nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, it led the rest, It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, And in all their looks and words.

9. Fog by Carl Sandburg
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

10. A Brod Bagert Poem…

11. What were the poetry techniques used in these poems?

12. --Assignment-- You must write a free verse poem Max # of lines: 20
Topic: Anything
Listen to your own drummer
We will be writing a few of these over the next couple of days. You will submit your best/most favorite one in the poetry contest.

13. Credits
“Free Verse Poem Lesson: Students Learn the Art of Using Poetry Techniques Instead of Rules" -
“Middle School Payback” by Brod Bagert