Poetry forms and parts. Stanzas Lines, meters, iambic pentameter, stressed vs. unstressed syllables.

1. Form and Structure
Ms. Yaeger
POETRY

2. LINE
• A row consisting of a word, or words, that may or may
not form a complete sentence.
• Form refers to the external pattern of a poem, including
the way lines and stanzas are organized.

3. STANZA
• Group of lines followed by a line or space.
• Stanza of two lines- Couplet
• Four lines- quatrains
• Six lines- sestets
• Eight lines- octaves

4. RHYME SCHEME
• Rhyming pattern of a poem.
• Lowercase letters show rhyme schemes.
• Each end sound is assigned it’s own letter.
• abab scheme
If I had loved you less or played you slyly
I might have held you for a summer more,
But at the cost of words I value highly
And no such summer as the ones before.
~Edna St. Vincent Mallay~

5. RHYTHM
• Stressed and unstressed syllables create a pattern-
rhythm.
• Predictable pattern- meter
• Does not HAVE to be predictable
• Full poem –predictable until the last line

6. METER
• Predictable rhythms are called meter
• Trimeter- three feet
• Tetrameter- four feet
• Pentameter- five feet
• Hexameter- six feet
• Iambic pentameter is in many English poems
• Iamb- foot that has unstressed syllable followed
by a stressed syllable.

7. FOOT
• The basic unit of stressed and unstressed syllables.
• Usually has two or three syllables.
oUnstressed syllable = ͝
oStressed syllable = ˊ

8. IAMBIC PENTAMETER
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Unstressed:
Shall thou
com more
thee ly
a s more
mer’s per
Stressed:
I art
pare love
to and
um tem
day ate

9. William Shakespeare
WHO WROTE THIS
POEM???

10. • Poetry without a fixed
pattern
• Use sound devices and
rhythm like speaking
• Short poems by one
speaker
• Express thought and
feelings
• Creates single, unified
impression
TYPES OF POEMS
Lyric Poem Free Verse

11. LYRIC POEM OR FREE VERSE
Speaking indifferently to him,
Who had driven out the cold
And polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
Of love’s austere and lonely offices?
RobertHayden

12. Free Verse

13. LYRIC POEM
It’s all I have to give,
and all anyone needs to live,
and to go on living inside,
when the world outside
no longer cares if you live or die;
remember,
I love you
JimmySantiagoBaca

14. ASSIGNMENT???
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15. WRITE A POEM!!!
• 4 Stanzas
• Each stanza= Tetrameter
• 642 things to write about 
Due Tuesday 1/26