1. All About Poetry…

2. How Poets Work: Poets LOOK closer Poets play with SOUND Poets make
Poets LOOK closer 
Poets play
with SOUND
Poets make
                COMPARISONS   

3. Poetry It is difficult to give poetry a definition.
A poem is an emotional experience.
It is a thought or feeling, transmitted by the imagination into images and expressed in a beautiful and usually patterned language.

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Watch poetry in action

5. Rhyme Rhyme is the likeness of sound at the end of words.
We piled, with care our nightly stack Of wood against the chimney-back
The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick.
- “The Hearth Fire” by John Greenleaf Whittier

6. Rhyme Scheme We piled, with care our nightly stack (A)
Of wood against the chimney-back (A)
The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, (B)
And on its top the stout back-stick. (B)
- “The Hearth Fire” by John Greenleaf Whittier
When reading a poem, use a different letter to keep track of each rhyme sound. That is the poem’s rhyme scheme.

7. Rhythm/ Meter
Rhythm is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Also called meter. A rhythm can make a poem sound serious or silly.
Sisters Heart to Heart – by Joanna Duchs
From the time that we were little, I knew you’d always be Not just a loving sister But a caring friend to me.
A shoulder I could cry on, A helping hand in times of need, A cheerleader to lift me up, My angel in both word and deed.
We told each other secrets; We giggled and we cried. We shared our joys and sorrows-- We were always side by side.
We have a very special bond; I knew it from the start. You’ll have my love forever-- We’re sisters, heart to heart.

8. Assonance
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants. “Tune” and “June” are rhymes; “tune” and “food” are assonant.
Example: mad hatter
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride.
--Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee"

9. Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening – Robert Frost
Repetition
Repetition is the recurring use of a sound, a word, a phrase or a line. It is used to appeal to our emotions and to emphasize important ideas.
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening – Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

10. Mood
Mood is the overall emotion created by a work of literature. Look at these two different moods:
1)        Winter Garden Stark naked flower stalks Stand shivering in the wind. The cheerless sun hides its black light Behind bleak, angry clouds, While trees vainly try To catch their escaping leaves. Carpets of grass turn brown, Blending morosely with the dreary day. Winter seems the death of life forever.
2) Spring Garden Stunningly dressed flower stalks Stand shimmering in the breeze. The cheerful sun hides playfully Behind white, fluffy, cotton-ball clouds, While trees whisper secrets To their rustling leaves. Carpets of grass greenly glow Blending joyfully with the day. Spring brings life to death.

11. Lines, Stanzas and Verse
A Line of Poetry
a single line of words in a poem
A Stanza in Poetry
a group of lines of poetry (2 or more) arranged according to a fixed plan
Verse in Poetry
a poem, or piece of poetry; part of a song following the introduction and preceding the chorus

12. Stanzas… Couplet: a two line stanza
Triplet: a three line stanza (sometimes Tercet)
Quatrain: a four line stanza
Cinquain: a five line stanza

13. Quatrain
Quatrains are four line poems. The lines usually rhyme in two patterns. Lines one and two and three and four (AABB) or lines one and three and two and four (ABAB).
Gumeye Ball
There’s an eyeball in the gumball machine, Right there between the red and the green, Lookin’ at me as if to say,
“You don’t need anymore gum today.” - Shel Silverstein
Anteater
“A genuine anteater,”
The pet man told my dad.
Turned out, it was an aunt eater,
And now my uncle’s mad!
-Shel Silverstein
What would their rhyme scheme be?

14. Another Quatrain
Mix an onion milkshake, Take a hearty drink, You’ll wind up with a headache Quicker than you think! Question: What is the rhyme scheme?

15. Limericks
The limerick takes its name from Limerick, Ireland. It is humorous and full of nonsense. It is a five line poem that consists of a triplet & a couplet. They often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms and other figurative devices.
The 1st, 2nd & 5th lines rhyme, with 3 beats per line
The 3rd & 4th lines rhyme, with two beats per line.
The last line is usually the punch line (the heart of the joke)
There once was a student at school (A)
Who would not conform to the rule (A)
He used all his time (B)
To write funny rhyme (B)
And limericks he used as his tool. (A)

16. Syllables A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
How many syllables?

17. Haiku
This is a form of Japanese poetry. A haiku has only three lines (triplet), with five, seven and five syllables. A haiku usually describes a season of the year or some aspect of nature.
Cold as a snowball
Chilled colder than the white snow
A lonely goodbye.
Some snowflakes descend
To blanket a barren branch
Others kiss the earth.

18. Free Verse Winter Poem once a snowflake fell on my brow and i loved
Free verse is just what it says it is - poetry that is written without proper rules about form, rhyme, rhythm, meter, etc. In free verse the writer makes his/her own rules. The writer decides how the poem should look, feel, and sound.
 Notice: i is not capitalized and there aren’t “normal” sentences….It’s free verse.
Winter Poem
once a snowflake fell
on my brow and i loved
it so much and i kissed
it and it was happy and called its cousins
and brothers and a web
of snow engulfed me then
i reached to love them all
and i squeezed them and they became
a spring rain and i stood perfectly
still and was a flower
  - By Nikki Giovanni

19. More Free Verse…
A Dream I dreamed the clouds were dragons. Billows of fluff, not fire Came toward me. I needed not my sword.

20. Epic
A long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic or legendary figure. Two of the most famous epic poems are the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer, which tell about the Trojan War and the adventures of Odysseus on his voyage home after the war

21. Onomatopoeia in Poems…
SOUND OF NATURE by Marie Josephine Smith
Ticking, tocking. Head is rocking. Tippy toeing. Quietly. Snap, crack. Crushing branch. Helter, skelter. Run for shelter. Pitter, patter. Rain starts to fall. Gathering momentum. Becomes a roar. Thunder booms.

22. Acrostic Poetry
An acrostic poem is one in which certain letters, often the first letter of every line, form a name or a theme.
Apples are yummy. Pretty and juicy. Please pick only when ripe. Licking jelly apples are fun. Eat them day and night.

23. Shape Poems
This is a shape poem. Ideally, it should describe the shape it is, and rhyme, but as you can see, this one doesn't. But this will give you the idea:
FUNNEL Here is a little poem ... well, maybe it's not so little, but it certainly is a poem ... although, come to think of it, this doesn't really rhyme, so maybe it's not a poem either; but anyway, here it is, and as you can see, it is of course funnel shaped, and before too long, quickly comes to the point, and right at about this place down here at the end !

24. More Shape Poems
"Idea: Old Mazda Lamp, W" By John Hollander

25. DIAMANTE
square symmetrical, conventional shaping, measuring, balancing boxes, rooms, clocks, halos encircling, circumnavigating, enclosing round, continuous circle
Line 1: one word (subject/noun that is contrasting to line 7)
Line 2: two words (adjectives) that describe line 1
Line 3: three words (action verbs) that relate to line 1 Line 4: four words (nouns) first 2 words relate to line 1 last 2 words relate to line 7
Line 5: three words (action verbs) that relate to line 7 Line 6: two words (adjectives) that describe line 7
Line 7: one word ( subject/noun that is contrasting to line 1)