Poetic Techniques

• Structure - How a poem is built

• Rhythm - The beat or pace of a poem 🥁

• Rhyme - A pattern of words that sound the same

• Tone - The attitude or emotional meaning of a poem

• Contrast - Comparing two things are that are very different to each other

• Enjambment - When an idea or thought is brought into the next line

• Metaphor- When two different things are compared to show similarities

• Simile - A comparison using like or as

• Personification - Giving human characteristics to a non human thing

• Symbolism - using symbols to represent or suggest something else

• Allusion - An indirect reference to a well known person or piece of work

• Reptation - Reusing words or a phrase in order to make a point

• Alliteration - Repeating the same letter or sound at the start of closely connected words

• Assonance - Repeating similar vowel sounds in a series of words or phrases

• Onomatopoeia - a word that sound likes the noise it makes

“When all the others were away at mass” By Seamus Heaney

“I was all hers as we peeled potatoes”

Shows how a memory of a simple task can feel so special depending on who it was with.

“Her breath in mine, our fluent dipping knives- Never closer the rest of our lives.”

Shows how close he was to his mother and how he misses those memories.

“Like solder weeping off the soldering iron”

An example of simile