POEM

Types & Key Features

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What is a Poem?
A form of literary art Language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or instead of, its apparent meaning.

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Verse Form
A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

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Meter in verse and poetry

Meter is a recurring pattern of stressed (accented, or long) and unstressed (unaccented, or short) syllables in lines of a set length. Example: Shall I comPARE thee TO a SUMmers DAY? A foot is a unit made up of stressed and unstressed syllables. A foot containing an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (as above) is called an iamb. This line contains five iambic feet and the meter is iambic pentameter. ....1.............. 2...................3.................4................ 5 Shall.I..|..com.PARE..|..thee.TO..|..a.SUM..|..mers DAY?

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Verse Forms
iambic pentameter - A line that has ten syllables in each line, but the alternate syllable is stressed.
e.g. I READ a BOOK withOUT a LIGHT toNIGHT.

FEET NOTE amphibrach (di-da-di) anapaest di-di-da) dactyl (da-di-di) iamb (di-da) spondee (da-da) trochee (da-di)

LINES dimeter: two feet trimeter: three feet tetrameter: four feet pentameter: five feet hexameter: six feet heptameter: seven feet octameter: eight feet alexandrine: 12 syllables

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Types of Verse Form

1. Blank Verse
Is poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter Is often unobtrusive and the iambic pentameter form often resembles the rhythms of ordinary speech

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Example of Blank Verse

The Ball Poem
What is the boy now, who has lost his ball, What, what is he to do? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then Merrily over-there it is in the water! John Berryman

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Types of Verse Form

2. Free Verse
Is a form of poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical scheme (without a pattern)

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Example of Free Verse

Song of Myself
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 loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
Walt Whitman

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Types of Verse Form

3. Rhyming Verse
poems which have the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words most often at the ends of lines This technique makes the poem easy to remember and is therefore often used in Nursery Rhymes

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Example of Rhyming Verse

HUMPTY DUMPTY
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses, And all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again!

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NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost

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