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Review Poetry
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Rhyme Scheme Couplet: Two lines of a poem together, with the same rhyme and the same rhyme at the end. Rhyming Couplet
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Let’s Practice Find words that rhyme with eye black glue will
Build rhyming sentences with 5 of them.
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Stanza: A part of a poem with similar rhyme and rhythm which are grouped together.
Rhyme: Words at the end of a line of a poem that sound alike Verse: a line of a poem
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Shakespearean Sonnet The Shakespearean sonnet is a type of lyric poem
has 14 lines, three quatrains (four line stanzas) and a couplet (two line stanza) the final couplet usually reveals the underlying message of the poem The meter, or pattern of stresses or beats, is iambic pentameter
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Rhyme Scheme ABAB -First quatrain CDCD -Second quatrain
EFEF Third quatrain GG Final couplet
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Activator What is a meter in poetry? Which types of meter are there?
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Meter in Poetry Meter is a unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats. It is also called a foot. Each foot has a certain number of syllables in it, usually two or three syllables. The difference in types of meter is which syllables are accented and which are not.
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Types of Meter Iamb: unstressed, stressed
Trochee: stressed, unstressed Dactyl: stressed, unstressed, unstressed Anapest: unstressed, unstressed, stressed Spondee: stressed, stressed
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Let’s Practice Come live with me and be my love Iamb
Tell me not in mournful numbers Trochee Half a league, half a league Dactyl
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Metrical Feet by Samuel Coleridge
Trochee trips from long to short From long to long in solemn sort Slow spondee stalks; strong foot yet ill able Ever to run with the dactyl trisyllable. Iambics march from short to long. With a leap and a bound the swift anapests throng.
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Haiku Haiku: a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression. Originally from Japan
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What could the Structure be?
Author Unknown The autumn wind blows Calling the leaves on the ground To join him in dance. Author Unknown I really like toast. It is yummy when it's hot. I like it best cold Haiku Example #1 Haiku Example #2
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Narrative poem – Lyric poem – Sonnet – Haiku
Activator Explain the different types of poems listed below. Narrative poem – Lyric poem – Sonnet – Haiku
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American poet and educator One of the Fireside Poets Longfellow
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Fireside Poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes The poets' primary topics were the domestic life, mythology, and politics of the United States in the 19th century The Fireside Poets wrote for the common people normal, everyday people The Fireside Poets told stories in their poems and wanted those stories to be told to other people
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Their poems show a standard form:
regular meter rhymed stanzas Narrative poems The Standard form made the poems perfect for memorization and recitation in school and at home At home their poems was a form of entertainment for families gathered around the fire Fireside Poets
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Prayers vs. Poems What do prayers and poems have in common? How are they different?
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