1. Poetry Elements Forms of Poetry Study Guide & Graphic Organizer

2. Poetry Elements 1. ______ is the artful arrangement of language, often used to illustrate an idea. Whenever you listen to a song, you’re listening to a poem. Reading a poem is much like listening to a song. The difference is that the “music” of a poem is all in its words. Poetry

3. Poetry Elements 2. A row of words is a ____. line

4. Poetry Elements 3. A group of lines is called a ______. stanza

5. Poetry Elements 4. Words with similar end sounds, within or at the ends of lines is called ______. rhyme

6. Poetry Elements 5. _______ is a repeated pattern of sound that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables. This is much like the “beat” in a song. Rhythm

7. Poetry Elements 6. The “voice” of the poem is the _______. speaker

8. Poetry Elements 7. Lines that are repeated, like the chorus to a song, are called a ______. refrain

9. Poetry Elements 8. A pattern of rhyming lines is called a ____________. rhyme scheme A mouse in her room woke Miss Doud, a Who was frightened and screamed very loud.a Then a happy thought hit her:b To scare off the critter, b She just sat up in bed and meowed. a --Author unknown Example:

10. Poetry Elements Example: A poem that contains a rhyme scheme, two stanzas, and a refrain. Every two lines rhyme. The Echoing Green excerpted from the original poem by William Blake The merry bells ring To welcome the Spring; The skylark and thrush, The birds of the bush, Sing louder around To the bells’ cheerful sound, While our sports shall be seen On the Echoing Green Old John, with white hair, Does laugh away with care, They laugh at our play, And soon they all say: “Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.” stanza rhyming lines refrain

11. 1.Two successive lines of verse that rhyme. Couplet Example Nature puts on little shows Every time it rains or snows.

12. 2. A musical poem that tells a story. It often has a refrain, or lines that repeat throughout the poem. Ballad from A Ballad of John Silver by John Masefield We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull, And we flew the pretty colors of the crossbones and the skull; We’d a big black Jolly Roger flapping grimly at the fore, And we sailed the Spanish Water in the happy days of yore. We’d a long brass gun amidships, like a well-conducted ship, We had each a brace of pistols and a cutlass at the hip; It’s a point which tells against us, and a fact to be deplored, But we chased the goodly merchant-men and laid their ships aboard.

13. 3.Tell about the speaker’s feelings. Lyric PoemsExample I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth

14. 3. continued—A rhymed lyric poem consisting of 14 lines. The rhyme scheme is usually abab cdcd efef gg. Sonnet THE SUNSET by Chelsea L. Barker I see the sun suspended in the sky, Between the clouds, above the quiet lake. While sitting on a cliff that’s closest by, Of lovely scenery I can partake. The sky is purple, orange, pink, and red, All blended in a spectrum by the sun, All lying on their multicolor bed. My day eventually became outdone. I’d hate to go back home and not return, And leave the cliff to go far, far away. But one thing out here that you have to learn, Is sunsets don’t last an entire day. So I will leave and I will come back soon, Until that time will come, I’ll watch the moon.

15. 3. continued—A lyric poem of praise for something or someone. It might recognize an important person, place, or thing. Ode from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death.

16. 3. continued—A poem that mourns and remembers the dead. Elegy When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d by Walt Whitman mourns the death of Abraham Lincoln.

17. 4. A long poem that describes the deeds or adventures of a hero. Epic Beowulf is a famous epic poem that was made into a film in 2007. The story comes from England and tells of the hero Beowulf who kills a monster named Grendel with a magic sword.

18. 5. A rhyming five-line poem that is usually very silly or humorous. It has a rhyme scheme of aabba. Limerick The Old Man from Blackheath Anonymous There once was a man from Blackheath Who sat on his set of false teeth. Said he with a start, “Oh, Lord, bless my heart! I’ve bitten myself underneath!”

19. 6. A Japanese form of unrhymed poetry made up of three lines. The first and last lines contain five syllables each, and the second line contains seven syllables. (5-7-5) It often depicts observations of nature. Haiku Thin green sprouting blade what gives you the quiet strength to split rough stone slabs?

20. 7. A poem that tells a story and usually includes characters, a setting, and a plot. Narrative PoemExample The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow