Poetry

Poetry
🞇 A poem is created by putting words together in an
interesting way to express a feeling, create a
mental picture, tell a story, or make a sound.
🞇 Poetry entertains the ears and the eyes.
Poetry Parts
 How many stanzas does this poem have?
Stanza
🞇 A stanza in a poem is like a
paragraph in an essay.
🞇 A stanza is usually
separated by some blank
space.
🞇 Common stanza lengths are
two, three, four, six, or eight
lines.
Winter Song
by Katherine Mansfield
Rain and wind, and wind and rain.
Will the Summer come again?
Rain on houses, on the street,
Wetting all the people's feet,
Though they run with might and main.
Rain and wind, and wind and rain.
Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow.
Will the Winter never go?
What do beggar children do
With no fire to cuddle to,
P'rhaps with nowhere warm to go?
Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow.
Hail and ice, and ice and hail,
Water frozen in the pail.
See the robins, brown and red,
They are waiting to be fed.
Poor dears, battling in the gale!
Hail and ice, and ice and hail.
 How many lines does this stanza have?
Line
🞇 A line in a poem is like a
sentence in a paragraph.
🞇 Sometimes, poets use
punctuation to mark the end
of a line. Sometimes, they do
not.
Winter Song
by Katherine Mansfield
Rain and wind, and wind and rain.
Will the Summer come again?
Rain on houses, on the street,
Wetting all the people's feet,
Though they run with might and main.
Rain and wind, and wind and rain.
Elements of Poetry
Rhyme
🞇 The repetition of end sounds
is called rhyme.
These words rhyme.
Winter Song
by Katherine Mansfield

Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow.

Will the Winter never go?
What do beggar children do
With no fire to cuddle to,
P'rhaps with nowhere warm to go?
Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow.
Rhyme Scheme Find the rhyme scheme.
🞇 The rhyme scheme of Winter Song
by Katherine Mansfield
a poem can be
determined by marking Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow. A
rhyming lines of the
Will the Winter never go? A
poem with a letter of
What do beggar children do B
the alphabet.
With no fire to cuddle to, B
P'rhaps with nowhere warm to go? A
Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow. A

So, the rhyme scheme is A-A-B-B-A-A

Free Verse or Unrhymed Verse
🞇 Free verse or Winter Trees
William Carlos Williams
unrhymed poems
do not rhyme or All the complicated details
have regular rhythm. of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.
Figurative Language
Poets and other writers use figurative language to make their
writing more interesting and expressive.
Onomatopoeia
🞇 Onomatopoeia is the
imitation of sounds in
word form.
 Winter from a window
Robert Arthur Miller
Alliteration With windows we watch winters
whispering winds
🞇 Alliteration is when while we wear whatevers warm,
almost all of the words inwhile we wait we wonder whether ,weather
will slow
the line have the same with what was the worst winter storm.
beginning sound.
Where we were, within warming walls
we watched winters weather wind down.
without windows we woud'nt see what was
winters
whitest snow on the ground.
Consonance
🞇 Consonance is when the
same consonant sound is
used at the end of many
words.

excerpt from Ickle Me, Pickle Me,

Tickle Me Too
by Shel Silverstein

Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too

Went for a ride in a flying shoe.
Similes
🞇 Poets use similes to compare two objects or ideas.
🞇 Similes use the words “like” or “as”.
Metaphors
🞇 Metaphors also compare two objects or ideas, but
do not use “like or “as”.