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lit - poem themes / notes 

Allen-a-dale:

  • Celebrating allen-a-dale for being a hero

  • Theme: national hero, nobility


Futility:

  • “Woke” & “once” = alliteration

  • Theme: the sun cannot break death


The charge of the light brigade:

  • Dactylic dimeter

  • Theme: celebrates heroism

  • “Honor the charge they made!

    Honor the Light Brigade,”

  • True story


The destruction of sennacherib:

  • Anapestic dimeter

  • Theme: power of God


The eagle:

  • Rhymed verse

  • About a literal eagle

  • cliff



Julius caesar:

  • Blank verse



Splinter:

  • Free verse

  • Takes place in the winter


Bonnie george campbell:

  • He died

  • Theme: unfairness of death


Holy sonnet 10:

  • Death [ig that could be considered as the theme]


Sonnet 29:

  • Quatrain and couplet (??) [dont need to know that lol]

  • Her love gives his life meaning


A haiku: [dont need to know this one at all :(]

  • Author: matsuo basho

  • [I LOVE HAIKUS SO MUCH]


November night:

  • Cinquain


400-meter freestyle:

  • Shaped poem about a pool


The alter:

  • Shaped poem about an alter


[pls lmk if none of this makes any sense !!]

DA

lit - poem themes / notes 

Allen-a-dale:

  • Celebrating allen-a-dale for being a hero

  • Theme: national hero, nobility


Futility:

  • “Woke” & “once” = alliteration

  • Theme: the sun cannot break death


The charge of the light brigade:

  • Dactylic dimeter

  • Theme: celebrates heroism

  • “Honor the charge they made!

    Honor the Light Brigade,”

  • True story


The destruction of sennacherib:

  • Anapestic dimeter

  • Theme: power of God


The eagle:

  • Rhymed verse

  • About a literal eagle

  • cliff



Julius caesar:

  • Blank verse



Splinter:

  • Free verse

  • Takes place in the winter


Bonnie george campbell:

  • He died

  • Theme: unfairness of death


Holy sonnet 10:

  • Death [ig that could be considered as the theme]


Sonnet 29:

  • Quatrain and couplet (??) [dont need to know that lol]

  • Her love gives his life meaning


A haiku: [dont need to know this one at all :(]

  • Author: matsuo basho

  • [I LOVE HAIKUS SO MUCH]


November night:

  • Cinquain


400-meter freestyle:

  • Shaped poem about a pool


The alter:

  • Shaped poem about an alter


[pls lmk if none of this makes any sense !!]

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