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Structured Poetry

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Structured Poetry

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    1. Making sense of patterns in poetry. Structured Poetry

    2. Prose – Ordinary speech or writing (Not poetry) Verse – another name for Poetry. Line – A single line of words in a poem. (A line in a poem does not have to be a complete sentence. A sentence may start on line 1 in a poem and end on line 3.) Stanza – A grouping of 2 or more lines in terms of length, form, and often rhyme scheme. Similar to a paragraph in prose. Definitions

    3. Quatrain – A stanza of 4 lines. They can have a variety of rhyme schemes. Couplet – 2 consecutive lines with end rhymes. Often a couplet is a 2-line stanza. Shakespeare often used couplets to show the end of a scene: I'll have grounds More relative than this. The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. - Hamlet Rhyme Scheme – The pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza. We assign the same letter of the alphabet to each similar sound in a stanza. Definitions continued…

    4. Examples of Rhyme Schemes There once was a big brown cat      a                   That liked to eat a lot of mice.         b                   He got all round and fat                  a                   Because they tasted so nice.           b From childhood’s hour I have not been                   a As others were; I have not seen                             a As others saw; I could not bring                             b My passions from a common spring.                      b From the same source I have not taken                  c My sorrow; I could not awaken                              c My heart to joy at the same tone;                          d And all I loved, I loved alone.                                d

    5. Choose one of the following poems from your textbook and identify the rhyme scheme present… Write a poem with a rhyme scheme of your choice. It must be at least 10 lines in length. Write a quatrain with a rhyme scheme of your choice. Write one rhyming couplet. Try it yourself…

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