Types of poetry: Free verse

Definition: A poem that has no fixed pattern, written freely.

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Types of poetry: Elegy

Definition: A sad poem about the death of a person

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Types of poetry: Ode

Definition: A poem to thank someone

Example:

Types of poetry: Sonnet

Definition: Poems that have 14 lines and 10 syllables

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Types of Poetry: Lyric

Definition: Expresses the feelings/thoughts of the poet
Example:
Love Lyric
Guitar strings strummed
The drum sticks beating
And the vocalist singing

A love lyric to his beloved one
A love lyric for all star-crossed lovers
A love lyric to true love

Going falsetto
And three notes lower
His girlfriend in the front row
Lifts her hands up high in the air

As he sings a love lyric
While the band plays the notes

A love lyric to his beloved one
A love lyric for all star-crossed lovers
A love lyric to true love

Types of poetry: Epic

Definition: A poem that tells a story about heroes/hero.
Example:
LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,
from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
awing the earls. Since erst he lay
friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:
for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve,
till before him the folk, both far and near,
who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate,
gave him gifts: a good king he!
To him an heir was afterward born,
a son in his halls, whom heaven sent
to favor the folk, feeling their woe
that erst they had lacked an earl for leader
so long a while; the Lord endowed him,
the Wielder of Wonder, with world's renown.
Famed was this Beowulf: far flew the boast of him,
son of Scyld, in the Scandian lands.
So becomes it a youth to quit him well
with his father's friends, by fee and gift,
that to aid him, aged, in after days,
come warriors willing, should war draw nigh,
liegemen loyal: by lauded deeds
shall an earl have honor in every clan.
Forth he fared at the fated moment,

sturdy Scyld to the shelter of God.

Then they bore him over to ocean's billow,
loving clansmen, as late he charged them,
while wielded words the winsome Scyld,
the leader beloved who long had ruled….

Types of poetry: Ballad

Definition: A poem used to be sung about love, betrayal, etc.

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Types Of Poetry: Narrative

Narrative:

Definition: Poems that tells a story and has plot.
Example:

Lines

Definition: A group of words forming a single mark.

Example: You're my shooting star.

Explanation: Having lines doesn't give the readers many confusions when they read too much.

Symbol :D

Definition: something that represents something else
Example:

Recycling symbol

Explanation: To make the poem more fun to read when the readers have to identify what the object represents.

Onomatopea (;

Definition: The sound effect of a poem.
Example:

Explanation: To capture the attention of the readers and to make the poem more interesting and realistic.

Assonance :P

Definition: When the same vowels are used in a phrase/line (repeated/ rhyme)
Example:

Explanation: this has almost the same effect as rhyme. It's catchy and easier to remember for a poem.

Alliteration

Definition: The same sound at the start of two or more near words.
Example:

Explanation: To make the poem sound unique and fun to the readers when the author play with words like this.

Meter :)

Definition: The rhythm of a verse that uses stressed & unstressed syllables.
Example:

 Explanation: To capture the attention of the readers when it's read aloud.

Elegy :D

Definition: A tragedy type of poem that talks about a lost or death of someone or something. It's usually sad.
Example:

Death, be not proud though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,
For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. 

Explanation: To remember and to show respect towards someone that has descended.

Couplet (:

Definition: Rhyme and rhythm that appears in two lines.
Example:

Explanation: To make the poem easier to remmeber and entertaining for the readers.

Rhyme ;)

Definition: The same sound at the end of the line or verse.
Example: Cat and Hat

Explanation: To make the poem easier to remember and fun for the readers to read.

Rhythm :)

Definition: The beat of the poem using stressed and unstressed voice.
Example:

Explanation: It's like listening to music. It's entertaining for the readers and also easy to remember.

Personification :D

Definition: To make something inhuman related to human.
Example:

The Train

I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then, prodigious, step

Around a pile of mountains,
And, supercilious, peer
In shanties by the sides of roads;
And then a quarry pare

To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while
In horrid, hooting stanza;
Then chase itself down hill
And neigh like Boanerges;
Then, punctual as a start its own,
Stop-docile and omnipotent-
A stable door.

Explanation: To make it seem more realistic. Humans are good to compare because readers are human, too.



Speaker :O

Definition: The person who's transferring you the message in the poem
Example:
Don't grieve for me, for now I'm free.
I'm following the path God has laid you see.
I took His hand when I heard Him call.
I turned my back and left it all.

I could not stay another day,
To laugh, to love, to work or play.
Tasks left undone must stay that way.
I found that peace at the close of the day.

If my parting has left a void,
Then fill it with remembered joys.
A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss,
Oh yes, these things I too will miss.

Be not burdened with times of sorrow.
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.
My life's been full, I savored much,
Good friends, good times, a loved one's touch.

Perhaps my time seemed all too brief.
Don't lengthen it now with undue grief.
Lift up your hearts and peace to thee.
God wanted me now; He set me free!

Explanation: To make the poem more interesting and fun to read. It's better to have someone talking to you, right?

Tone :]

Definition: The up and down voice while reading the poem or how deep it is.
Example:

Explanation: To make the poem sound more interesting & exciting.

Interpretation :P

Definition: To understand the meaning of something (the poem).
Example:
Take my hand
Let us walk the world together
Let everyone see
It's you and me
Within you lies the sun, the breeze
You are my inner peace

Needing you always by my side
You are my whole life
Warmed by a fire within
* This poem generally talks about the love of someone towards someone else.

Explanation: The readers will understand the poem better using interpretation.

Simile

Definition: Compare between two things using the words like or as.
Example:

Explanation: If the reader only knows one of the objects, using simile will help the readers understand the other one.

Extended Metaphor

Definition: A larger form of metaphor. It's a comparision between sentences or paragraphs.
Example:

Explanation: To compare between two things and help the readers understand the poem better.

Metaphor (:

Definition: A figure of speech that uses the words like and as to compare.
Example:

Explanation: To compare two things with each other to make the poem more understandable for the readers.

Stanza [:

Definition: a paragraph in a poem ;)
Example:


Significance: to divide ideas of the poem ;)

Imagery :D

Definition: the ability to form a mentals images of things or events.
Example: Shakespeare's poetry is rich of imagery.

Sinificance: Poetry with imagery help people to understand more about the meaning of the poetry.

POETRY :)

Definition: poetry is a kind of writting that have word with same sounds like: know, low.
Example: Rose are red
Violets are blue,
I love poetry
And so are you
Significance: Poetry give us more ideas about the poetry, pooetry is wrote in rhythm and rhyme.