Form and Structure

Ms. Yaeger

POETRY

LINE• A row consisting of a word, or words, that may or may

not form a complete sentence.

• Form refers to the external pattern of a poem, including the way lines and stanzas are organized.

STANZA• Group of lines followed by a line or space.

• Stanza of two lines- Couplet

• Four lines- quatrains

• Six lines- sestets

• Eight lines- octaves

RHYME SCHEME• Rhyming pattern of a poem.

• Lowercase letters show rhyme schemes.

• Each end sound is assigned it’s own letter.

• abab scheme

If I had loved you less or played you slyly

I might have held you for a summer more,

But at the cost of words I value highly

And no such summer as the ones before. ~Edna St. Vincent Mallay~

RHYTHM• Stressed and unstressed syllables create a pattern-

rhythm.

• Predictable pattern- meter

• Does not HAVE to be predictable

• Full poem –predictable until the last line

METER• Predictable rhythms are called meter• Trimeter- three feet

• Tetrameter- four feet

• Pentameter- five feet

• Hexameter- six feet

• Iambic pentameter is in many English poems

• Iamb- foot that has unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

FOOT• The basic unit of stressed and unstressed syllables.

• Usually has two or three syllables. oUnstressed syllable = ͝oStressed syllable = ˊ

IAMBIC PENTAMETER

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Unstressed: Shall thoucom morethee lya s moremer’s per

Stressed: I artpare loveto andum temday ate

William Shakespeare

WHO WROTE THIS POEM???

• Poetry without a fixed pattern

• Use sound devices and rhythm like speaking

• Short poems by one speaker

• Express thought and feelings

• Creates single, unified impression

TYPES OF POEMSLyric Poem Free Verse

LYRIC POEM OR FREE VERSE

Speaking indifferently to him,

Who had driven out the cold

And polished my good shoes as well.

What did I know, what did I know

Of love’s austere and lonely offices?

Robert Hayden

Free Verse

LYRIC POEMIt’s all I have to give,

and all anyone needs to live,

and to go on living inside,

when the world outside

no longer cares if you live or die;

remember,

I love you

Jimm

y Santiago Baca

ASSIGNMENT???

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WRITE A POEM!!!• 4 Stanzas

• Each stanza= Tetrameter

• 642 things to write about

Due Tuesday 1/26