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

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