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Poetry: Form - Coggle Diagram
Poetry: Form
Stanza structure
Defintion
A stanza is a series of lines grouped together to divide a poem; it can reveal its organization, structure, pattern, mood etc.
Types
- Monostich: A one-line stanza (Can also be an entire poem) - Couplet: A stanza with two lines that rhyme.
-Tercet: Stanza with three lines that wither rhyme or the first and the third line rhyme
- Quatrain: A stanza with four lines with the second and fourth lines rhyming
- Isometric stanza: Have same symbolic beats or the same meter in every line
- Spenserian stanza: Has nine lines, eight in iambic pentameter a twelve syllable beat line
- Ballad stanza: Rhyming quatrain with four emphasized beats in the first and third lines and three emphasized beats in the second and fourth lines.
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Verse structure
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Types
- Sonnet: Fourteen-line poems that follow a strict rhyme scheme and conform to the metrical pattern of iambic pentameter
- Haiku: a three-line Japanese poem that follows a syllable pattern of 5-7-5
- Ballad: A kind of verse, sometimes narrative in nature, often set to music and developed from 14th and 15th century
- Villanelle: A nineteen-line poem divided into five tercets or sets of three lines and one concluding quatrain or set of four lines.
- Ottava Rima: Uses eight iambic lines and follows a rhyme scheme of ABABABCC
- Acrostic: A piece of writing in which letters form words or messages. The acrostic is most commonly associated with poetry
- Burns Stanza: Six-line stanza form that uses a rhyme scheme of AAABAB
- Chaucerian Stanza: Seven lines long and uses the rhyme scheme ABABBCC
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Sound devices
Most common type
- Repetition: repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas
- Rhyme: the repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line
- Alliteration: a form of poetry that plays on the use of words with the same beginning sound
- Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together in a sentence or verse
Definition
Special tools the poet can use to create certain effects in the poem to convey and reinforce meaning through sound.
Figurative language
Definition
a type of descriptive language used to convey meaning in a way that differs from its literal meaning
Types
- Idiom: a phrase that is common in a language or culture that means something different from how it literally sounds
- Synecdoche: the word for a part of something is used to refer to the thing itself
- Oxymoron: Term which features two words which appear to contradict each other
- Puns: Create a play on words; adding meaning to a subject.
- Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together in a sentence or verse
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