structural elements of poetry. important vocabulary verse/stanza rhyme scheme imagery
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Stanza/VerseStanza/Verse
a stanza/verse is like a paragraph in a poem
a group of lines in a poem that go together
a poem can have multiple stanzas or verses
stanzas or verses are separated by a blank line
How many stanzas?How many stanzas?I threw
a small water balloon.That’s all.
I hid.I tossed.
I ran.
My victim knows,and lies in wait
with the garden hose.
Three stanzas/verses
ImageryImagery
a poet often writes poems to create word pictures
it is the readers job to create the pictures in their minds when they read the poems
it is sometimes a puzzle to figure out what the poet is describing
ImageryImagery
A crow stole the coneand six tiny sparrows hopped
vanilla footprintsacross the sidewalk.
What event is this poem describing?
What happened to the ice cream cone someone dropped
Rhyme SchemeRhyme Scheme
a rhyme scheme describes in letters the pattern that the poems follows
each line of the poem is assigned a letter that matches the other line it rhymes with
EX. AABB or ABAB etc.
Name the Rhyme Name the Rhyme SchemeScheme
http://www.poetry4kids.com/poem-462.html
AABB
Name the Rhyme Name the Rhyme SchemeScheme
I saw a very pretty dogBut he was a bit cautious
He had gotten lost in the fogAnd now was a bit nauseous
ABAB
Name the Rhyme Name the Rhyme SchemeScheme
http://www.poetry4kids.com/poem-286.html
AABB
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