Poetry - a form of literature that allows writers to express their thoughts, feelings, emotions, and ideas about a particular theme or topic.

Elements of Poetry

• Lines - group of words that form a single line of poetry

  - often organized into stanzas

• Stanza - It is the group of lines

• Stanza - It develops and empemphasizes one idea

Kinds of Stanza

• Couplet - two line stanza

• Triplet (Tercet) - a three line stanza

• Quartain - four line stanza

• Quintet/Quintain - five line stanza

• Sestet (Sextet) - six line stanza

• Septet - seven line stanza

• Octave - eight-line stanza

Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme

Rhyme - words that sound alike

Rhythms - often used in poems

Rhyme Scheme - a pattern of rhymes in a poem

Rhythm - pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed syllables in poem

Meter - measured beat

Meter Patterns in Poetry

• Iamb - unstressed and stressed syllable (daDUM)

• Trochee - stressed and unstressed syllables (DUMda)

• Spondee - two stressed syllables (DUMDUM)

• Anapest - two unstressed and stressed syllables (dadaDUM)

• Dactyl - stressed and two unstressed syllables (DUMdada)

• Amphibrach - unstressed, stressed, and unstressed syllable (daDUMda)

• Pyrrhic - two unstressed syllables (dada)

Mood - feeling that a poem creates in a reader

Tone - attitude the author takes toward the subject

Theme - lesson about life or statement about human nature that the poem expresses