Important Notes and Links for poetry

Poetic Notes -- Week of 


*Syllables are beats of sound within a word

*rhyming words are words that have the same ending sound

*These are not rhyming words -- they are not synonyms -- they are homophones-- words that sound exactly the same, but have a different spelling and meaning. Example:  there, they're, and their

*meter in poetry is a measured pattern of beats and sounds

noun
1. The definition of a rhyme scheme is a specific pattern used in a poem that determines which lines rhyme.
2. An example of a rhyme scheme is an AA BB scheme, which means the first line rhymes with the second line, and the third line rhymes with the fourth line.

1. Iambic pentameter refers to a certain kind of line of poetry, and has to do with the number of syllables in the line and the emphasis placed on those syllables. Many of Shakespeare's works are often used as great examples of iambic pentameter.

EXAMPLES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF POETRY:

Haiku poems date from 9th century Japan to the present day. Haiku is more than a type of poem; it is a way of looking at the physical world and seeing something deeper, like the very nature of existence. 9th, 2015

1. Haiku is one of the most important form of traditional Japanese poetry. Haiku is, today, a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. Since early days, there has been confusion between the three related terms Haiku, Hokku and Haikai

Examples of Free Verse Poems

Free verse poems will have no set meter, which is the rhythm of the words, no rhyme scheme, or any particular structure. Some poets would find this liberating, being able to whimsically change your mind, while others feel like they could not do a good job in that manner. Robert Frost commented that writing free verse was like "playing tennis without a net."

1. A ballad /ˈbæləd/ is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dancing songs".

son·net

ˈsänət/

noun

1.  a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

 ab ab, cdcd, efef, gg - English 

1. A blank verse is a poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter. This means it consists of lines of five feet, each foot being iambic, meaning two syllables long, one stressed followed by an unstressed.