Writing poetry is like

pooping. If there’s a
poem inside of you, it has
to come out.”
Sarah Kay
a poem is a mirror
you read a poem then
the poem reads you
Poetry
Students will know…
Elements and Types of Poetry

Students will be able to…

Show the generic structure of
poetry as a form of literature
 “All Scripture is breathed out by God
and profitable for teaching, for
reproof, for correction, and for
training in righteousness, that the man
of God may be competent, equipped
for every good work.”

2 Timothy 3:16-17
 Poetry
A form of literature which
uses aesthetic qualities
such as rhyme scheme and
meter
Language + Art
What you want to say

How you say it

 Instead of saying
“I love you”
Say…
You and I, it's as though we have been
taught to kiss in heaven and sent down
to earth together, to see if we know what
we were taught.”
Doctor Zhivago
 Instead of saying
“I love you”
Say…
“Whatever our souls are made
of, his and mine are the same.”
Wuthering heights
 Instead of saying
“I love you”
Say…
"When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun”
Romeo and Juliet
 Instead of saying
“Always”

Say…
“For you, a thousand
time over.”
The Kite Runner
 Instead of saying
“Love me instead”

Say…
“Sure the sun is brighter, but
the moon shines with light that
will never hurt your eyes”
“As is painting, so is poetry:
some pieces will strike you
more if you stand near...”

Horace’s Ars Poetica

Elements of
Poetry
1.Structure
and Sound
2.Style
3.Sense
1.Structure
and
Sound
Rhyme Scheme
The pattern of the
use of rhyme in a
poem
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? A
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date B

-Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare

 Types of Rhyme
Scheme
• Couplet- (AA)
• Quatrain- (ABAB) (ABBA)
• Tercet- (AAA)
• Terza Rima- (ABA BCB
CDC)
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? A
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date B

-Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare

Quatrain- ABAB
 Rhythm and
Meter
Meter is the pattern in a
line categorized by a fixed
number of syllables
Rhythm is the pattern of
sound created.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? A
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date B

-Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare

Quatrain- ABAB
Pentameter
Rhythm and
Meter
Meter- total number of
syllables in a verse
Play wright
Stress:
Com pu ter To put
emphasis
Tel e phone
 Rhythm
I am a pirate with a
^ ^ ^
wooden leg
^ ^
 Rhythm and
Meter
Meter- total number of
syllables in a verse
Rhythm- the sound pattern
created by stressed and
unstressed syllables
2. Sense
Subject Matter
What is the
poem about?
 Persona and
Addressee
Persona
A dramatic character who is
the speaker of a poem
Addressee
To whom the poem is
addressed/ dedicated to
MOTHER Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
TO SON And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Langston Hughes Bare.
But all the time
I’se been a-climbin’ on,
And reachin’ landin’s,
And turnin’ corners,
And sometimes goin’ in the dark
Where there ain’t been no light.
So boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps
’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.
Don’t you fall now—
For I’se still goin’, honey,
I’se still climbin’,
And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
3. Style
The use of figures of
speech, imagery,
symbolism, and other
literary techniques
Different
Poetic
Forms
 1. Epic
Long narrative
poem about heroic
deeds or events.

Example: Biag ni Lam-

Ang, Beowulf,
 2. Haiku
Japanese poetry
written in three
lines of five, seven
and five syllables,
respectively
 3. Cinquain
a poem with five lines

Line 1 is one word (the title)

Line 2 is two words that describe
the title.
Line 3 is three words that tell the
action
Line 4 is four words that express
the feeling
Line 5 is one word that recalls the
title
 4. Sonnet
A single-stanza
poem containing
14 lines with a
specific meter and
rhythm
 SONNET 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
By William Shakespeare Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
 5. Ballad
a narrative set to
music passed
down orally
6. Free Verse
Verse that does not
conform to any
fixed meter or
rhyme scheme
 You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he
You won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves

are Jeff you. And you feel like you've done

something terrible, like robbed a liquor
store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled
yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're
tired. You're in a car with a beautiful boy,
and you're trying not to tell him that you
love him, and you're trying to choke down
the feeling, and you're trembling, but he
reaches over and he touches you, like a
prayer for which no words exist, and you
feel your heart taking root in your body,
Paragraph 24 like you've discovered something you don't
Richard Siken even have a name for.
Poetry- A form of literature which uses aesthetic qualities
Elements of Poetry
1.Structure and Sound
1.Rhyme Scheme- The pattern of the use of rhyme in
a poem
Types of Rhyme Scheme
 Couplet- (AA)
 Quatrain- (ABAB) (ABBA)
 Tercet- (AAA)
 Terza Rima- (ABA BCB CDC)
1.2. Meter- the pattern in a line categorized by a fixed
number of syllables
1.3. Rhyme- the sound pattern created by stressed and
unstressed syllables
2. Sense
2.1. Subject Matter- What is the poem about?
2.2. Persona- A dramatic character who is the speaker of
a poem
2.3. Addressee- To whom the poem is addressed/
dedicated to