Structural Elements of Poetry. Important Vocabulary verse/stanza rhyme scheme imagery.

Structural ElementsStructural Elements of Poetry of Poetry

Important VocabularyImportant Vocabulary

verse/stanza

rhyme scheme

imagery

Stanza/VerseStanza/Verse

a stanza/verse is like a paragraph in a poem

a group of lines in a poem that go together

a poem can have multiple stanzas or verses

stanzas or verses are separated by a blank line

How many stanzas?How many stanzas?I threw

a small water balloon.That’s all.

I hid.I tossed.

I ran.

My victim knows,and lies in wait

with the garden hose.

Three stanzas/verses

ImageryImagery

a poet often writes poems to create word pictures

it is the readers job to create the pictures in their minds when they read the poems

it is sometimes a puzzle to figure out what the poet is describing

ImageryImagery

A crow stole the coneand six tiny sparrows hopped

vanilla footprintsacross the sidewalk.

What event is this poem describing?

What happened to the ice cream cone someone dropped

Rhyme SchemeRhyme Scheme

a rhyme scheme describes in letters the pattern that the poems follows

each line of the poem is assigned a letter that matches the other line it rhymes with

EX. AABB or ABAB etc.

Name the Rhyme Name the Rhyme SchemeScheme

http://www.poetry4kids.com/poem-462.html

AABB

Name the Rhyme Name the Rhyme SchemeScheme

I saw a very pretty dogBut he was a bit cautious

He had gotten lost in the fogAnd now was a bit nauseous

ABAB

Name the Rhyme Name the Rhyme SchemeScheme

http://www.poetry4kids.com/poem-286.html

AABB

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