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Poetry: Form
Stanza structure
Quatrain
A quatrain is a four-line stanza of poetry, which can be a stand-alone poem of four lines, or a four-line stanza that makes up part of a longer poem.
From Because I Could Not Stop for Death By Emily Dickinson
"Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality."
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Verse strucure
Line Breaks
When one line ends and another begins, whether it is at the natural end of a sentence or not.
From The Eagle By Alfred Tennyson
"He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with the azure world, he stands."
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Caesura
A break or pause in the middle of a line of verse. These breaks can be towards the beginning, middle, or the end of a line.
From Mother and Poet By Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east,
And one of them shot in the west by the sea.
Dead! both my boys! When you sit at the feast
And are wanting a great song for Italy free,
Let none look at me!"
Sound devices
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Alliteration
A technique that makes use of repeated sounds at the beginning of multiple words. It is used in a wide range of cases, including poetry and prose.
‘American Sonnet‘ by Billy Collins
"and hide the wish that we were where you are,
walking back from the mailbox […]
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Figurative language
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Hyperbole
An intentionally exaggerated description, comparison, or exclamation meant to make a specific impact on a reader.
From A Character By William Wordsworth
"This picture from nature may seem to depart,
Yet the Man would at once run away with your heart;
And I for five centuries right gladly would be
Such an odd such a kind happy creature as he."
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