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More About Poetry
About Sonnets Types Shakesperean (English) Has 14 lines 3 groups of 4 lines
(quatrains) and a couplet (a two-line stanza that usually rhymes with an
end rhyme).Petrarchan (Italian)Has an octave and a sestet
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Some Poetry Examples
Anapest - “Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house”
Trochee - “Double, double toil and trouble” Dactyl - “Take her up tenderly”
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About Ballads
A story in a song. Examples include early poems that we learn as children.
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Lyric Poems
A story told with the poet playing upon a lyre.
Example: Daffodils
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Heroic Couplets
Firmly end-stopped and written in iambic pentameter.
Example :The IliadThe Odyssey
Couplet again means a two-line stanza that usually rhymes with an end-rhyme.
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Dramatic Monologues vs Apostrophe
Dramatic Monologues
Poems that address another
person who remains silent.
Apostrophes A direct address of
someone or something that is not there.
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More on Anapests:Looking at Feet
The anapest is a type of poetry foot consisting of two unstressed syllables and a stressed syllable.
•Twas the NIGHT is a single anapestic foot•Twas [unaccented] the [unaccented] NIGHT [accented]
or the following notation can be used:
˘ ˘ ¯ Back to Some Poetry Examples
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Further explanations:Meters and Feet
Meter is a comparatively regular rhythm in a poem, verse, or song. It is composed of syllables or units of sound. For example
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Syllables
A syllable is a unit of sound. For example, the word, flower has two syllables flo-wer
Syllables influence the rhythm of language and are composed of stressed (accented) and unstressed (unaccented) elements.
•Flo-wer: two syllables with first stressed and second unstressed -
The following notation is sometimes used: ¯ ˘
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