Poetry - Form

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Poetry

What do you know about poetry?

What is poetry

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

Tools for analysing poetry

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

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

Different forms of metre

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.

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