Poetry TermsPoetry Terms

Time to take some notes!Time to take some notes!

Poetry Terms – 3 areas of analysisPoetry Terms – 3 areas of analysis

MusicalityMusicalityHow things How things

soundsound

ImageryImageryFive senses and Five senses and

kinesthetic kinesthetic and organic and organic (physical (physical sensation)sensation)

Rhyme Rhyme SchemeScheme

End rhyme and End rhyme and internal internal rhymerhyme

Poetry Terms – A Closer LookPoetry Terms – A Closer Look

MusicalityMusicality

This includes Alliteration, Assonance and Consonance

MusicalityMusicality

Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition of initial is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words. consonant sounds in neighboring words. Example: And Example: And ssings a ings a ssolitary olitary ssong /That ong /That wwhistles in the histles in the wwind ind

AssonanceAssonance is the repetition of vowel is the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds. sounds but not consonant sounds. Example: flExample: fleeeet ft feeeet swt sweeeep by slp by sleeeeping ping grgreeeeks ks

ConsonanceConsonance is the repetition of final is the repetition of final consonant sounds. Example: She saconsonant sounds. Example: She satt, fee, feett in fronin frontt..

MusicalityMusicalityWe Real CoolWe Real Cool

The Pool Player.The Pool Player.Seven at the Golden Shovel.Seven at the Golden Shovel.

We real cool. WeWe real cool. WeLeft school. WeLeft school. WeLurk late. WeLurk late. WeStrike straight. WeStrike straight. WeSing sin. WeSing sin. WeThin gin. WeThin gin. WeJazz June. WeJazz June. WeDie soon.Die soon.

We Real CoolWe Real CoolThe Pool Player.Seven at the Golden Shovel.

We real coo l. WeLeft schoo l. WeLurk late. WeStrike straight. WeSing sin. WeThin gin. WeJazz June. WeDie soon.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Alliteration Assonance

Consonance

Old WomanOld WomanThe owl-car clatters along, dogged by the echoFrom the building and battered paving-stone.The headlight scoffs at the mist,And fixes its yellow rays in the cold slow rain;Against a pane I press my foreheadAnd drowsily look on the walls and sidewalks.

The headlight finds the wayAnd life is gone from the wet and the welter- -Only an old woman, bloated, disheveled and bleared.Far-wandered waif on other days,Huddles for sleep in a doorway,Homeless.

Alliteration

Assonance

Consonance

ImageryImagery ImageryImagery is language that evokes is language that evokes

one or all of the five senses - sight, one or all of the five senses - sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. It hearing, touch, taste, and smell. It also includes kinesthetic sense also includes kinesthetic sense (physical movement) and physical (physical movement) and physical sense (organic)sense (organic)

Repetition Repetition is the repeating of a word, a phrase or an idea is the repeating of a word, a phrase or an idea for emphasis or for rhythmic effect. Example: “someone for emphasis or for rhythmic effect. Example: “someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door”gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door”

ForeshadowingForeshadowing

Often times, this gives us Often times, this gives us “clues” as to what may be “clues” as to what may be

coming upcoming up““She had always been a good girl, but that was She had always been a good girl, but that was

about to change…”about to change…”

Rhyme SchemeRhyme Scheme

For End Rhyme, label the last word with For End Rhyme, label the last word with letters from the alphabet. Increasing each letters from the alphabet. Increasing each letter with each new rhyme you find.letter with each new rhyme you find.

Remember that Repetition, Alliteration, Remember that Repetition, Alliteration, Consonance and Assonance also still are Consonance and Assonance also still are at play.at play.

Rhyme Scheme will add to the musicality Rhyme Scheme will add to the musicality of a poem.of a poem.

Sonnet FormSonnet Form

Elizabethan form our focusElizabethan form our focus 14 lines14 lines Love poemsLove poems End Rhyme Scheme for Elizabethan form:End Rhyme Scheme for Elizabethan form:

Abab/cdcd/efef/ggAbab/cdcd/efef/gg

Romeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet Prologue/ Sonnet Prologue/ Sonnet

Two households, both alike in Two households, both alike in dignitydignity, , (A)(A) In fair Verona, where we lay our In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, (B)scene, (B) From ancient grudge break to new From ancient grudge break to new mutiny (A)mutiny (A) Where civil blood makes civil hands Where civil blood makes civil hands uncleanunclean (B)(B) From forth and fatal loins of these two From forth and fatal loins of these two foes (C)foes (C) A pair of star-cross’d lovers taker their A pair of star-cross’d lovers taker their life; (D)life; (D) Whose misadventur’d piteous overWhose misadventur’d piteous overthrows (C)throws (C) Doth with their death bury their parents Doth with their death bury their parents strife. (D)strife. (D) The fearful passage of their death-mark’d The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love (E)love (E) And the continuance of their parents’ And the continuance of their parents’ rage (F)rage (F) Which, but their children’s end, naught and could reWhich, but their children’s end, naught and could remove move Is now the two hours’ traffic of our Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage; (F)stage; (F) The which if you with patient ears The which if you with patient ears attend, (G)attend, (G) What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend (G)mend (G)