Meter

Definition: Meter is the number of syllables in a poem.


Example: .
.1.............. 2.................3..............4................ 5 
Shall.I..|..com.PARE..|..thee.TO..|..a.SUM..|..mer’s DAY?


Significance: Meters in poems make the poem is the pattern of the poem. Meters are important because the meter makes the lines of the poems have a rhythm.

Rhyme

Definition: Rhyming is a lead up rhythm. Rhyming is making two words sound alike. 


Example: It was purchased just for you,
when you're happy or you're blue,
you can wear it on your head,
'round the house or in your bed,
you can wear it in the dark,
while you're strolling in the park. 

You can wear it going to Church,
or by the tele watching Lurch,
you could wear it to do the wash,
or when cooking stew or squash.

Frosty Freeze is like Carvel,
always had this great old smell,
frozen custard, ain't it grand,
lots of trips to that old stand,
Werner Brooks and A & W,
didn't have Wawa or VW.

Thought this shirt might have some power,
to take old cancer to the shower,
to make you laugh and push that bug, 
with a big old "Frap" and a giant mug.

Whatever it does, it's inspired from above, 
and sent from your brother with a whole lot of
LOVE.

 Significance: Rhyming in poems makes the rhythm. The rhythm makes the poems smooth. Without rhyming there would be no rhythm.

Rhythm

Definition: To make smooth beat so the poem flows nice and clean.


Example: Music is part of my everyday life,
it's the one thing that makes me feel alive.
No matter what it could be,
all music influences me.

Music teaches me everything I do,
After hearing the words, you know it suits you.
Without music I don't know what I would do,
when I'm feeling bad it's the only place I can go to.

Music is my life, my desire,
As I listen, it builds me higher.
No matter what kind, rock, country, or rap,
you can't convince me that any of it is crap.

Whatever you're feeling, whether its happy, sad or fear,
just turn it up and listen to what you hear.
To me music could never go wrong,
I could listen to it all day long.

Significance: If poems didn't have rhythm then the poem wouldn't flow so smooth and it would also be boring. Rhythm is important because it goes it shows the emotions in the poem and helps tell the story.

Onomatopoeia

Definition: Making sounds into words.

Example: BOOM!

Significance: Onomatopoeia makes poems better because it makes something thats happening stand out more or pop out to the reader.

Personifcation

Definition: Making soemthing sound like it is a human or giving a non human attributes of a human.

Example:

The teapot sang as the water boiled
The ice cubes cackled in their glass
the teacups chattered to one another.
While the chairs were passing gas
The gravy gurgled merrily
As the oil danced in a pan.
Oh my dinnertime chorus
What a lovely, lovely clan!

Significance: It makes poems better because it makes the poem stand out more.

 

Imagery

Definition:Putting a picture into the readers head to make them see whats happening in the poem using their senses.

Example:

The winter evening settles down

With smell of steaks in passageways.

Six o'clock.

This is imagery because I can smeel the steaks.

Significance: Poems need imagery because imagery makes the poem more understanding.

Simile

Definition: A way speech to compare things using "like" or "as".

Example:She was red like a rose.

Significance: If poems didn't have similes then poems would be boring and wouldn't put pictures inn the readers head. Similes make poems better because a simile can explain something. 

Repetition

Definition: Something that is repeated over and over to get the point across to the reader.

Example: O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.


O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills; 10
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.

In this poem "fallen dead and cold" is repeated over and over.

Significance: Some poems need repeated lines because the reader might not see the main ideaq that the author is trying to give to them.

Tone

Definition: The mood or attitude of the poem that the author puts the poem in.

Example: O Captain My captain! The attitude in this is like a rejoicing attitude.

Significance: If poems didn't have tones then the poem would be very boring. Also poems need tones to make poems flow smoothly.

Interpretation

Definition: The idea the reader thinks the message is trying to tell him or her. To give information or explain something.

Example:If you can think and not make thoughts your aim.

Significance: It makes the poem more understanding for the reader.

Metaphor

Definition: A figure of speech used to represent something or compare things to something else.


Example: A mighty fortress is our God.


Significance: Metaphors help poems stand out and uses strong language to get a better meaning for the person reading. Metaphors add different tones to the poem. 

Speaker

Definition: A person who speaks to someone or to an audience. In poetry a speaker is the person who wrote the poem.


Example: When someone walks onto a stage and starts to talk about something or someone. They could also be giving a lecture or reading something from a passage. 


Significance: Speakers are important in poetry because the speakers set the tone of the poem. They are the ones who says the poem and without the speaker there is no poem to be read.

Symbol

Definition: Something used to represent something else. Most of the time it is a token, emblem, or a sign.

Example: The sunset in a poem is a symbol of getting old.


Significance: Symbols in poems are important because they show you what they are talking about. Symbols in poems add more clarification. It makes poems better by making the reader think about it and relate to the poem.

Couplet

Definition: A pair of lines that rhyme and are the same length.

Example:

"A little learning is a dangerous thing

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."

Significance: If some poems didnt have couplets it wouldn't be as interesting. Some poems need couplets because if they didn't have couplets then it would be very boring and better to read.

Stanza

Definition: A stanza is a paragragh or few lines. Usually about four lines or more. Sometimes having a meter, certain length, or rhythm.

Example: To some power is guns
To some power is knifes
To some power is the ability to read, and write.
To some power is control
To some power is a fist
To some like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. power was words.
To some power is like a trapped animal trying to get out of a cage.
To some power is love
To some power is art
To some power is money
To me power is knowledge
So what is power to you.

This is a single stanza poem.

Significance: If a poem didn't have a stanza or stanzas then it would be confusing. Stanzas help poems separate the poem to make sense. It makes the poem more organized.