(g4)types of poetry

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The Intro To Various Poetry Terms

Meter

Is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed

syllables that make up a line of poetry.

Meter gives rhythm and regularity to poetry.

Example :

Shall I com PARE thee TO a SUM mersDAY?


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Types of Meters in Poetry

Iamb (Iambic) Unstressed + Stressed = Two

Syllables Trochee (Trochaic) Stressed + Unstressed = Two

Syllables

Spondee (Spondaic) Stressed + Stressed = TwoSyllables

Anapest (Anapestic) Unstressed + Unstressed +

Stressed = Three Syllables Dactyl (Dactylic Stressed + Unstressed +

Unstressed= Three Syllables

Pyrrhic Unstressed + Unstressed = Two Syllables.


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Monometer One Foot

Dimeter Two Feet

Trimeter Three Feet

Tetrameter Four Feet

Pentameter Five Feet

Hexameter Six Feet

Heptameter Seven Feet Octameter Eight Feet.


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Rhyme

two words, or lines of poetry rhyme, the end with

the same sounds.

Ex :

"Here lies Sam Shay,Smoked six packs a day.

He started smoking when he was five.Now that fool is no longer alive."


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Blank Verse

Unrhymed metered verse.

In the English tradition, the lines are usually iniambic pentameter.

The Ball Poem by John Berryman 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 thenMerrily over-there it is in the water!


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Free verse

name given to poetry that does not conform to

any metrical pattern. Although free verse often discards rhyme, the

absence of rhyme is not a sign of free verse.

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 toyou.I loaf and invite my soul,I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of

summer grass.


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Ryhme verse

Rhymed verse has to rhyme.


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Rhythm

occurs whenever there is regular and repeated

alternation between recognisably different events(left-right, left-right; on-off, on-off, etc).

Types of rhythm:

(a) rising duple: one-two, one-two (iambic)

(b) falling duple: one-two, one-two (trochaic)

(c) rising triple: one-two-three, one-two-three(anapestic)

(d) falling triple: one-two-three, one-two-three

(dactylic)


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Example :

this is an example of a rhymed iambic

pentameter)

Away, the lads. Your deathless chants will be

heard in these bars and streets long after weare dead (for lads are mortal too); your sons

will never feel the need for different ones.

('The Lads', 37-40)- -

- Brown


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Enjambment

the continuation of a complete idea (a sentence

or clause) from one line or couplet of a poem to

the next line or couplet without a pause.

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,

Looking as if she were alive. I call

That piece a wonder, now....


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Alliteration

Two or more words with the same initial sound

occur in a line or phrase.

the repetition of initial sounds (usually

consonants)

Example :

Fall

Windy, winding walking ways

Streets snaking, singing sways

Descending deeper, darker days

Migrating, meandering, misty maze


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Assonance

The repetition or resemblance of similar

accented vowel sounds occurs when vowels are repeated in words that

are close to each other.

Ex :

Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.

Hear the mellow wedding bells.

And murmuring of innumerable bees.


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Onomatopoeia

is a figure of speech in which words are used to

imitate sounds of what they describe.

Ex :

Swoosh, swish

paddling down a creek

splish, splash, whump

a fish jumps on me


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Flick, the lights go on,

Clap! Shout! The show must go on

Screech, bump, the microphone's gone!Click, clack, goes the shoes

Swoosh, creak, the curtains open

Ding, dong, the bells ringTing, Tang, the triangles go,

"And they lived happily ever after."

Laughter, cheering, "encore" the show is done


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Simile

figure of speech in which two things are

compared using the word "like" or "as" to draw

attention to similarities about two things that

are seemingly dissimilar.

Ex :

"Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and

strong."

"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to

hear him crow."


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Metaphor

a pattern equating two seemingly unlike objects

compares something abstract to something

concrete

Ex :

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:


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Personification

A figure of speech in which an inanimate object (or

an abstraction) is given a human attribute.

Ex :

The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky. The run down house appeared depressed.

The first rays of morning tiptoed through the

meadow. She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at

her door.

He did not realize that his last chance was walking

out the door.


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Sonnets

English (or Shakespearean) sonnets are lyricpoems that are 14 lines long falling into three

coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet.

Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnets are divided into

two quatrains and a six-line sestet.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this and this gives life to thee.


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Quatrain is a stanza or poem of four lines

Sestet is also six lines ofpoetry forming a stanza or complete poem.

Ex :So answerest thou; but why not rather say:Hath man no second life? Pitch this one high!Sits there no judge in Heaven, our sin to see?

More strictly, then, the inward judge obey!Was Christ a man like us? Ah! let us tryIf we then, too, can be such men as he!
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Lyric Poetry

consists of a poem, such as sonnet, that

expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet.

now commonly referred to as the words to a

song.

lyric poet addresses the reader directly,

portraying his or her own feeling, state of mind,

and perceptions.

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Example I heard a fly buzz when I died;

The stillness round my form

Was like the stillness in the airBetween the heaves of storm.

The eyes beside had wrung them dry,And breaths were gathering sureFor that last onset, when the kingBe witnessed in his power.

I willed my keepsakes, signed awayWhat portion of me ICould make assignable,-and then

There interposed a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,Between the light and me;And then the windows failed, and then

I could not see to see.


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Epic

An epic is a long narrative poem celebrating the

adventures and acheivements of a hero... epicsdeal with the traditions, mythical or historical, of

a nation.

Some of the most famous epic poems are theIliad and the Odyssey by Homer.

The Odyssey(about the misadventures of

Odysseus trying to return from the Trojan Warand the shenanigans of the suitors trying to

usurp his place back in Ithaca),
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The Iliad (about the role of Achilles in the Trojan War), a

Ex :The Iliad Odyssey: The Summary Of A Man

Odysseus indeed in spoils of warwith cunning brave heart, cleverly won,many a fair desirable noble womenwhile his wife loyally waited, on Ithaca,

for warrior hero's fleet bloodied blade

in the hand of a Hellene king in duress,foremost ever in corpse reaping battlerenowned for guile deceit resourcefulness,

will storm many fortified rampart heartsenchant many fair young, innocent maids,before finally ends an epic tragic Odysseydecade upon a decade in event, laden journey,

for renown upon renown in famed Trojan Waran epic travails in trials score upon scoreas virile Odysseus tries to spoils laden return farareassert his place as rightful king of Ithaca.

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Limericks

A limerick has five lines.

The last words of lines one, two, and five rhyme.The last words of lines three and four rhyme.

A limerick has to have a pattern of stressed and

unstressed syllables.

Ex :

"There was an old man from Peru

Who dreamed he was eating his shoeHe awoke in the night

With a terrible fright

To discover it was totally true."


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Examples of Limericks by Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Vienna,

Who lived upon Tincture of Senna;When that did not agree,He took Camomile Tea,That nasty Old Man of Vienna.

There was an Old Person whose habits,Induced him to feed upon rabbits;When he'd eaten eighteen,He turned perfectly green,Upon which he relinquished those habits.

There was an Old Man of the West,Who wore a pale plum-coloured vest;When they said, 'Does it fit?'He replied, 'Not a bit!'

That uneasy Old Man of the West.


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There was an Old Man in a tree,Who was horribly bored by a Bee;When they said, 'Does it buzz?'He replied, 'Yes, it does!''It's a regular brute of a Bee!'

There was an Old Man in a boat,Who said, 'I'm afloat, I'm afloat!'When they said, 'No! you ain't!'

He was ready to faint,That unhappy Old Man in a boat.


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Haiku

Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed

lines of five, seven, and five syllables.

Haiku poetry originated in the sixteenth century

Haiku is Japanese poetry that reflects on nature

and feelings.

You use your observation skills to write what you

see in a new or different way.


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Nature's Dance

A flower in bloomMusic to the bumble beeBeauty to the eye

The Bee

Buzzing in the springHovering over flowersHoney is its trade

Water

Flowing through the pipesRushing out of the faucetRefreshing and cool


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Question

1. Do you think that dowry in the society should be

abolished? Give opinion.

2. Give examples that shows Mrs. Ramachandran

doesnt give respect to her husband?

3.How the dowry system gets erased from our

society?


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4. Loveliest oftrees, the cherry nowIs hung with bloom along the bough,

And stands about the woodland rideWearing white for Eastertide.

What kind of tree is mentioned in the poem?

In your opinion, are the trees already bearingfruits? Why?

Explain the figurative line of wearing white for

eastertide? Cite two reasons on why the poem could be

describing the spring season?


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5. Create an iambic pentameter poem.

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