"Poetry is a rhythmical composition of words expressing an attitude, designed to surprise and delight, and to arouse an emotional response" (Kennedy and Gioia).
Structural Elements of Poetry
Verse - single line of poetry or any composition written in separate lines of more or less regular rhythm.
- Example: "thirty days hath September, April, June, and November;
- All the rest have thirty-one,
- Excepting February alone,
- To which we tenty-eight assign
- Till leap year makes it twenty-nine".
Diction - refers to the class of words that an author chooses as appropriate for a particular work.
example: daffodils instead of plant life
Stanza - group of lines whose pattern is repeated throughout the poem.
Rhyme - when two or more words sound similar.
- Example: book and shook
Meter - rhythmic pattern of stresses.
- Example: "My life had stood a loaded Gun".
Form - design of a poem.
- F-ather is the best
- O-melet is what he made for me
- R-an to hug him before he leaves
- M-other was jealous.
Couplet - rhymed two lined stanza.
- Example: Cat
- Hat
No comments:
Post a Comment