Poetry - Form

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What do you know about poetry?

Slide 2 - Mind map

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What is poetry
  • Popular definition: a song without a melody
  • Two essentials: form and content
  • Different types of poems:
    Sonnet
    Ballad
    Limerick

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Tools for analysing poetry
  • Form:
    Metre and scansion
    Rhyme scheme
    Stanza division
  • Content:
    Situation
    Theme
    Symbolism
    Metaphors
    Imagery

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Slide 6 - Video

Form: metre and scansion
  • Scansion is the written down version of metre. 
  •  We have unstressed(ˇ) and stressed(ˉ) syllables
  • For example: ˇ + ˉ = 1 versefoot; 5 versefeet = 1 iamb

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Different forms of metre

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Rhyme Scheme

Using the letters of the alphabet to show the rhyme scheme. 
For example: AABB CCDD. 

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? 
Autumn -Joan Mitchell

The rusty leaves crunch and crackle,
Blue haze hangs from the dimmed sky,
The fields are matted with sun-tanned stalks —
Wind rushes by.

The last red berries hang from the thorn-tree,
The last red leaves fall to the ground.
Bleakness, through the trees and bushes,
Comes without sound.

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Stanza Division

  • A stanza is a group of lines followed by a space.
  • Are the stanzas related to one another? 
Streemin

Im in the botom streme
Which meens Im not brigth
Don't like reedin
Cant hardly ryt

But all these divishns
Arnt reely fair
Look at the cemetery
No streemin there

Roger McGough



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