examples of poetry terms
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Examples of Poetry Terms. Example #1. Never did a love seem so sweet As ours when we first met. Example #1. Enjambment. Example #2. T all T om t old t iny T ina t o t ake t urns t oday. Example #2. Alliteration. Example #3. I sit and play as life goes by - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
EXAMPLES OF POETRY TERMS
EXAMPLE #1
Never did a love seem so sweet
As ours when we first met
EXAMPLE #1
Enjambment
EXAMPLE #2
Tall Tom told tiny Tina to take turns today.
EXAMPLE #2
Alliteration
EXAMPLE #3
I sit and play as life goes by
Questioning fate and asking why
Why do some draw a useless card
Whilst others lives are so easy
Against their ace we draw a three
What is it that makes living hard
EXAMPLE #3
Sestet
EXAMPLE #4
There is no gain in pain but again no pain no gain!
EXAMPLE #4
Consonance
EXAMPLE #5
Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and weary,
EXAMPLE #5
rhyme
EXAMPLE #6
I stroll along a fragrant country lane With honeysuckle perfume on the air -And feathered crooner's warble to
revere -Then cross a golden sea of flowing grainIn empathy - it seems to sense my painOf knowing all was
done with my affair -Her empty meaning now the solitaireShe cast away - betrothment all in vain.
EXAMPLE #6
octet
EXAMPLE #7
EXAMPLE #7
Rhyme scheme
EXAMPLE #8
"Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese"
EXAMPLE #8
assonance
EXAMPLE #9
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way
EXAMPLE #9
imagery
EXAMPLE #10
I tire of writing poems and rhyme
I think I need vacation time
EXAMPLE #10
couplet
EXAMPLE #11
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
(da DUM da DUM da DUM da Dum da DUM)
EXAMPLE #11
Meter(imambic pentameter
to be exact)