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Poetry that has no regular structural patterns is called or open
form.
Poems with have established structures.
• Elizabethan sonnets
• lines with a specific scheme
• Haiku
• lines with a certain number of in each line
• Villanelles
• 19 lines with a regular pattern of repeating lines
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Analyzing Poetic Structure
This poem is an example of a poem. There is no specific
structure.
Today as the news from Selma and Saigon poisons the air like fallout, I come again to see the serene great picture that I love.
Here space and time exist in light the eye like the eye of faith believes. The seen, the known dissolve in iridescence, become illusive flesh of light that was not, was, forever is.
We went to see a movie. I ate some popcorn, and I had a good time. The music of
the opening credits was pretty loud.
This could be greatly improved with words that the popcorn or
maybe the music in more .
Includes imagery:
Underline the imagery that appeals to the senses of sight, smell, sound, and feel.
Comparing Poetry and Art
Includes imagery
The movie theater filled with the scent of freshly popped popcorn as we approached our seats. The lights dimmed to a faint glow, and music came thumping out of the speakers. The vibrations from the bass made the hair on my arms stand up. I was so excited to see this movie!
Underline the poet’s use of simile in the poem “Monet’s ‘Waterlilies.’”
Comparing Poetry and Art
Here space and time exist in light the eye like the eye of faith believes. The seen, the known dissolve in iridescence, become illusive flesh of light that was not, was, forever is.
–“Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’”Robert Hayden
Underline the allusions in “Sonnet in Primary Colors.”
Each night she lay down in pain and roseto the celluloid butterflies of her Beloved Dead,Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead.
–“Sonnet in Primary Colors,”Rita Dove
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Rita Dove (b. 1952)
• Was born in Akron,
• Studied at Miami University in Ohio and the University of Tübingen in
• Writes verse-novels, , essays, and poetry
• Served as poet laureate of the United States; was the
person ever to be named US Poet Laureate
• Won the Pulitzer for her poetry
• Wrote a poem about famous Mexican painter , “Sonnet in