BLANK SPACE LYRICS
Or it's gonna go down in flames
Nice to meet you, where you been?
I could show you incredible things
Magic, madness, heaven, sin
Saw you there and I thought
"Oh, my God, look at that face
You look like my next mistake
Love's a game, wanna play?" Ay
New money, suit and tie
'Cause we're young, and we're reckless
I can read you like a magazine
Ain't it funny? Rumors fly
And I know you heard about me
So hey, let's be friends
I'm dying to see how this one ends
Grab your passport and my hand
I can make the bad guys good for a weekend
So it's gonna be forever
You can tell me when it's over, mm
If the high was worth the pain
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
'Cause you know I love the players
And you love the game
We'll take this way too far
It'll leave you breathless, mm
Or with a nasty scar
Got a long list of ex-lovers
They'll tell you I'm insane
But I've got a blank space, baby
And I'll write your name
 Types and Features of

POETRY
 WHAT
IS It is a piece of art known
to be an outlet for self-
expression and for

POETRY conveying meaning.

?
 Types of Poetry

Lyric Narrative Dramatic

 1. Lyric Poetry
is a type of poetry that is usually short and is written
in stanzas.
 lyric Poetry Sub-categories
1 Elegy 4 Ode

2 Haiku
5 Pastoral Poem

3 Limerick
6 Sonnet
 AN EXCERPT FROM

Elegy Elegy Written in a

Country Churchyard
is a poem that talks BY THOMAS GRAY

about death and The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,

And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour.
mourning The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault,

If Mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies raise,
Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.

Can storied urn or animated bust

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
 Haiku
obell , ‘You Laughed is a short traditional japanese
Bertram D
While I Wept’. poem that consists three lines
with 17 syllables
ug he d w h ile I wept,
You la
a nd yo ur laughter
Yet my tears
e s o u rce.
5-7-5
Had on ly o n
measurement
 Limerick
Lady of Dorking by Edward Lear
is a poem that consists of five
lines There was a Young Lady of Dorking,
Who bought a large bonnet for walking;
But its colour and size,
So bedazzled her eyes,
That she very soon went back to Dorking.
 AN EXCERPT FROM
Ode to the West Wind
BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Ode I
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

It is generally written and Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
recited as a praise or tribute Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed

to people, objects, qualities, The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
or ideas. Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow

Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill

(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)
With living hues and odours plain and hill:

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;

Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear!
 AN EXCERPT FROM
Pastoral Poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
evokes or portrays an
Come live with me and be my love,
idealized rural life And we will all the pleasures prove,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the Rocks,

Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow Rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing Madrigals.
 ON HIS BLINDNESS
BY JOHN MILTON
When I consider how my light is spent

Sonnet Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,

And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide,
consists of fourteen lines that is "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
usually related to love That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts: who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait."
2. Narrative Poetry
Tells a story wit the use of rhymes and

other poetic devices..

usually told by a narrator

 Narrative Poetry
Sub-categories

Medieval
Ballad Epic Romance
 “All the world’s a stage”
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

(from As You Like It, spoken by Jaques)

All the world’s a stage,

Ballad
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;

This type of
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,

narrative poem
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

is intended to Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,

be sung. With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
 AN EXCERPT FROM
THE EPIC OF

Epic GILGAMESH
BY SIN-LEQI-UNNINNI

is a long narrative
poem that narrates
stories of the deeds
and adventures of
heroic people.
 AN EXCERPT FROM
SIR GAWAIN AND THE
GREEN KNIGHT
Medieval
Romance
tales that deal with marvelous crusades of
chivalrous kings or knoghts

may feature religious crusades, love and

other sort of wonders
3. Dramatic Poetry
is a dramatic work written in
verse.
lyrical in nature but involves
characters’ dramatic involves
 Comedy

Morality Play
Dramatic Poetry
Sub-categories Mystery Play

Tragedy
 OSCAR WILDE’S
Comedy
This is a type of drama in
which the characters
triumph over hardships
that mostly results in
happy or successful
ending

Morality Play
teaches people how to live
in the right way based on
the teachings of the church.
THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
This famous story of man's progress through life in search of
salvation remains one of the most entertaining allegories of
faith ever written. Set against realistic backdrops of town and
country, the powerful drama of the pilgrim's trials and
temptations follows him in his harrowing journey to the
Celestial City.
Along a road filled with monsters and spiritual terrors,
Christian confronts such emblematic characters as Worldly
Wiseman, Giant Despair, Talkative, Ignorance, and the demons
of the Valley of the Shadow of Death. But he is also joined by
Hopeful and Faithful.
 THE STORY OF ADAM AND EVE

Mystery Play The Old Testament tells of Adam and Eve, our
progenitors. They lived in paradise in total
is often religious and innocence until the serpent (the devil)
was used to teach enticed them to eat the forbidden fruit from
the tree of knowledge. As punishment for
people about the
their disobedience, God banished them from
bible Paradise.
 THE STORY OF MACBETH
Tragedy BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(SUMMARY)

deals with sorrowful and tragic Three witches tell the Scottish general
events like death, suffering,
Macbeth that he will be King of Scotland.
hopelessness, and pain
Encouraged by his wife, Macbeth kills the
king, becomes the new king, and kills more
people out of paranoia. Civil war erupts to
overthrow Macbeth, resulting in more death.
Features of
Poetry
 TYPES OF LINES
IN TERMS OF PATTERNS OF

Line RHYTHM AND SOUNDS

is a subdivision of poem which is metricallly

composed of words lined in a row
Acatalectic
complete

metrically
Catalectic
incomplete

metrically
Hypercatalectic
excessive
 NUMBER OF
TYPE LINES

couplet 2 lines
Stanza tercet 3 lines
quatrain 4 lines
is a set of lines forming the cinquain 5 lines
divisions of a poem separated sestet 6 lines
with an empty line septet 7 lines
octave 8 lines
sonnet 14 lines
 COMMON TYPES OF RHYME

Rhyme PERFECT RHYME night and bright

CONSONANT RHYME bell and hall

is a resemblance of sounds
occurring usually between or ASSONANT RHYME tip and dip
at the end of the words in a
poem HEAD RHYME bet and bat

EYE RHYME move and love

 SCHEME PATTERN

Rhyming Alternate Rhyme

Couplet Rhyme
ABAB

AA BB
Scheme Monorhyme AAAA
occurence of rhymes in the
Enclosed Rhyme ABBA
ending words of every line in
a poem Triplet
AAA

Terza Rima Rhyme

ABA BCB
Limerick
AABBA
 3 FACTORS TO DETERMINE THE
RHYTHM OF A POEM
Meter The total number of syllables

and present in each line

Rhythm The total count of accented

is the number of syllables per line (stressed) syllables in each line
and the systematic regularity in
rhythm

The tally of recurring patterns of two

systematic rhythm is identified by or three syllables stressed or
examining the number of feet and unstressed clubbed in every line
the type of foot
 one foot Monometer

Meter two feet Dimeter

three feet Trimeter

is the pattern of stressed
and unstressed syllables in
a poem
four feet Tetrameter
syllable = foot
foot = 1 beat five feet Pentameter

six feet Hexameter

TYPES OF BEAT PATTERNS
NAME DEFINITION EXAMPLE

1st syllable - unstressed That time | of year | thou

Iambic Meter mayst |in me | behold
2nd syllable - stressed

Trochaic Meter 1st syllable - stressed Tell me | not in | mournful |

2nd syllable - unstressed numbers

1st and 2nd syllable -

Anapestic Meter unstressed And the sound | of a voice |
that is still
3rd syllable - stressed
TYPES OF BEAT PATTERNS
NAME DEFINITION EXAMPLE
1st syllable - stressed This is the | forest pri | meval
Dactylic Meter 2nd and 3rd syllable -un the |murmuring | pine and the
stressed | hemlocks

Phyrric Meter two unstressed syllables When the blood creeps and
the nerves prick

Spondaic Meter two stressed syllables To a green thought in a green

shade
 MY MIRACLE
By Eljen Nina Pasay

I was in my darkest,
When I learned about you,
At my lowest,
Then you gave me hope anew.

I was fighting my demons,

Through and through,
I was chained in my thoughts,
Of not being good for you.

I still fought hard and strong,

Knowing within me there’s you,
Despite the doubts and fear of the unknown,
I still chose a life with you.

You are my strength,

My precious gift,
In this life’s chronicle,
My miracle.
 ACTIVITY
In your group choose
any type of poetry and
write your own poem.
Then choose one
representative to read
it in the class.
 ASSIGNMENT
Now that you know the different types and features of
poetry, write a poem about upholding your personal
values. Make sure that the elements of poetry are
considered in writing your poem.
Thank You !