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Structure determination

  • Free verse: no rhyme, no rhythm.
  • Blank verse: no rhyme, yes rhythm.
  • Formal verse: rhyme & rhythm

Scansion: analysis of rhythm

Metre Patterns

Rhythm

Monometre: one foot

Dimetre: two feet

Trimetre: three feet

Tetrametre: four feet

Pentametre: five feet

Hexametre: six feet

Heptametre: seven feet

Oxtometre: eight feet

Sound devices: sound play

Categories of Poetry

  • Narrative - Tells a story. Has a plot. eg. Ballad.
  • Lyric - focus on emotions, feeling, mood. are usually short. eg. love songs, patriotic songs, hymn, elegy, ode, sonnet, epic.
  • Descriptive - Great deal of imagery, many adjectives. eg. Wordsworth's descriptions of the sublime elements of nature.

History

Ancient Poetry (Sanskrit)

Old-English Period (Beowulf)

Age of Chaucer (Canterbury Tales)

Elizabethan age (Faustus)

Puritan Period (Paradise Lost)

Eighteenth century (Blake)

Romanticism (Byron)

Modernism (beat generation)

Rhyme scheme

Anglo American Poetry

Meaning devices

Simile vs Metaphor: "is" vs. "like, as"

Synecdoque vs Metonymy: "attached" vs. "unattached".

Symbol, Allegory: "one symbol". "the whole story".

Personification: to give human attributes, powers, or feelings to abstractions or inanimate objects

Irony: Hyperbole & Meiosis (overstatemant, understatemant), Sarcasm, Paradox.

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