Poetry Term #20

20) Lines

monometer                     1 foot
dimeter                          2 feet 
tetrameter                      4 feet 
trimeter                         3 feet 

pentameter                    5 feet
hexameter                     6 feet 
octameter                      8 feet
heptameter                    7 feet 

Definition:

A formal structural division of a poem, consisting of one or more feet arranged

Example:

I am fast and fun.

I can dream, dreams that nobody has dreamt before.

I would go on adventures all over the world.

I want to write out my imagination.

I enjoy seeing peace.

I am fast and fun.

I want to fly and taste the air.

I am not afraid to say what I want.

I feel such smooth things that touch my fingers.

I find such pretty things in nature.

I am fast and fun.

I want to be a soccer star.

I think hard about things.

I wonder where we go when we fade.

I feel so great when I help someone.

Significance: 

Different type of poetry have different structure of lines. Lines give readers a better view of poem. Without lines, poem would just look like an essay. 

Poetry Term #19

19) Symbol

Definition:

the use of colors, seasons, words, characters, actions, or other things to represent another, deeper meaning..

Example:

Rose, thou art sick!

The invisible worm

That flies in the night,

In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy:

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

Significance:

Symbols help readers to understand what poet is trying to say easier.

Poetry Term #18

18) Onomatopoeia

Definition:

A figure of speech which words are use to imitate sound.

Example:

Boom!

Went the food

trays.

Clap! Clap!

Goes the teacher.

Rip!

Went the

plastic bag.

Munch! Munch!

Go the students.

Slurp!!!

Went the straws.

Whisper

Is what half the kids

in the room

are doing.

Crunch!

Crunch!

go

the candy bars.

Significance:

Onomatopoeia words describe word vividly. They are real life sound in our daily life so they give us an easy way to understand a word by it's sound. They also expand our interests for the poem. 

Poetry Term #17

17) Assonance

Definition:

A pattern of similar sound, especially vowel sounds.

Example:

Hear the mellow wedding bells, 

Golden bells! 

What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! 

Through the balmy air of night 

How they ring out their delight! 

From the molten-golden notes, 

And an in tune, 

What a liquid ditty floats

Significance:

Assonance creates rhythm in poem like music by having similar sound in the vowel part that create beats. 

Poetry Term #16

16) Alliteration

Definition:

The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words.

Example:

Don't delay dawns disarming display .

Dusk demands daylight .

Dewdrops dwell delicately

drawing dazzling delight .

Dewdrops dilute daisies domain.

Distinguished debutantes . Diamonds defray delivered

daylights distilled daisy dance .

Significance:

More interesting when read out loud.They emphasize parts of the poem that the author wants to present with. Alliteration also plays words. 

Poetry Term #15

15) Meter

Definition:

The pattern by the number of syllables and rhythm of accented.

Example:

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Significance:

Create rhythm to poem to attract readers. They bring the same pattern of sound when the reader stressed and unstressed, express more feelings and thoughts. 

Poetry Term #14

14) Elegy

Definition:

A poem that laments the death of a person.

Example:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,

The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Significance:

To remember the people that have pasted.

Poetry Term #13

13) Couplet

Definition:

A pair of line with the same length and rhyme to complete the thought.

Example:

I played Barbie pet shop.

Then I had to stop.

Significance:

To complete the meaning like a sentence. The pair of line also make music, rhythm of the poem. Couplet is also a type of poetry and it has a very complex rhythm. 

Poetry Term #12

12) Rhyme

Definition:

The same or similar sound at the end of two or more words.

Example:

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!

Significance:

Make the poem catchy and memorable. A poem that rhyme always less boring than other normal poem. Rhyme in a poem is a must so without rhyme, the poem pretty much have not complete. 

Poetry Term #11

11) Rhythm 

Definition:

The repeated pattern of sound or movement.

Example: 

Rhythm in a poem is a "must"

Because it's the poet's "lust"

Significance: 

Create beats for more fun to read.

Poetry Term #10

10) Personification

Definition: 

Make something nonhuman becomes a human. Has human's actions, outlook, characteristic,..

Example:

The leaves on the ground danced in the wind

The brook sang merrily as it went on its way.

The fence posts gossiped and watched cars go by

which winked at each other just to say hi.

The traffic lights yelled, ”Stop, slow, go!”

The tires gripped the road as if clinging to life.

Stars in the sky blinked and winked out

While the hail was as sharp as a knife.

Significance:

To make things come to life and closer to usso we can understand them better.

Poetry Term #9

9) Speaker

Definition: 

Many times in poetry, personal feelings and thoughts are expressed in first person. However, just as the authors of novels do not necessarily feel and think the same things as their characters, poets who use “I” in their poems may not be speaking for themselves. The speaker of the poem is the proper term in formal analysis.

Example:

I will persist,

Even when life resists,

My time is coming,

I must keep running,

I'll run MY race,

and keep MY pace,

Difficulties I'll face,

But I'll keep my grace,

I do what I do,

Because I remain true,

I will rise above,

Doing what I love,

I will make that dough,

Doing what I know,

And to those who laugh,

They can kiss my ***ets 

Significance:

Speaker transfers the emotion of the poem to the listener. Having another person speak his own thoughts creates the effect of a whole new world with a very different point of view from the author himself.