Exploring Poetry Structures and Terms: A Guide to Understanding Verses

Dec 14, 2025

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This comprehensive guide delves into the various structures and terms of poetry, offering insights into forms such as sonnets, haikus, and free verse. Learn about vital poetic elements like meter, rhyme scheme, and enjambment. Whether you're a budding poet or a passionate reader, understanding these foundational concepts will enhance your appreciation of poetry. Discover how structure influences meaning and emotion, and how poets utilize language to craft their works. Join us on this poetic journey to deepen your literary knowledge.

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Exploring Poetry Structures and Terms: A Guide to Understanding Verses

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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. By Peggy Ness. Introduction to Poetry Terms. Alliteration Assonance Free verse Haiku Onomatopoeia Rhyme Rhythm Repetition. Alliteration. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words. The w ayward w ind, is a restless w ind. Assonance.

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POETRY TERMS

POETRY TERMS. Figure of speech. compares one thing to something entirely different -It’s never literally true! Ex: It’s raining cats and dogs. Simile. figure of speech which compares two unlike things using like or as Example:The horse ran like the wind. . Metaphor.

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Poetry terms

Poetry terms. Useful words to use when talking about poetry!. Alliteration. The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a line. For example: ‘What would the world be?’ ‘The cat crept crazily..’. Assonance. Similar to alliteration – but with VOWEL sounds. For example:

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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. rhythm. The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables– the poem’s beat. elegy. A poem for someone who has died. meter. A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. End rhyme. Rhymes at the end of the line The panther is a leopard ,

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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons. I walk across sand And find myself blistering In the hot, hot heat As the wind does blow Across the trees, I see the

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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms . English I – Miss Michel. Speaker. The voice that is talking to us in a poem. Sometimes the speaker is identical with the poet, but often the speaker and the poet are not the same. The poet may be speaking as a child, a woman, a man, a whole people, an animal, or

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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. 1. Alliteration – repetition of beginning consonant sounds 2.Ballad – a narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung 3. Cinquain – A type of poem that gets its name from the fact that it is always five lines long 4. Couplet – two lines that rhyme.

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Poetry Terms

simile. stanza. Poetry Terms. personification. imagery. hyperbole. metaphor. alliteration. form. onomatopoeia. Figurative Language:. any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject. Imagery.

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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. General Elements Figurative Language Sound Devices Forms of Poetry Types of Poetry. Elements: Stanza. Formal division of lines in a poem Considered a unit Separated by spaces Couplets: two lines Quatrains: four lines. Speaker. Imaginary voice assumed by poet

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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. Notes and examples. Verse. A line of or lines of poetry Late for Class I realized it was half past four When I, quite late, ran out the door. My history class I so abhor, But I missed two sessions the week before. I failed a test on ancient lore

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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. Poetry has different forms for different purposes LYRIC POETRY. Lyric Poetry is not . . . Narrative Filled with complex structures or exotic words Forced rhyme. Lyric Poetry is . . .

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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. Time to take some notes!. Poetry Terms – 3 areas of analysis. Musicality How things sound. Imagery Five senses (physical sensation). Rhyme Scheme End rhyme and internal rhyme. Poetry Terms – A Closer Look. Musicality. This includes Alliteration, Assonance and Consonance.

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POETRY TERMS

POETRY TERMS. Literary devices and terms associated with poetry. Persona. The speaker or narrator in the poem. The voice in the poem is not necessarily the poet ’ s. Tone. The attitude or feeling of the poem.

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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. Scansion . … is the art of scanning a line or poem for meter and foot. In a structured poem, each line has a specific number of feet in a specific meter. Meter. A “stressed syllable” is a syllable that is emphasised in speech.

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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. Alliteration. Repetition of a consonant. Example P eter, P eter P umpkin Eater. Assonance. Repetition of a vowel sound. Example P e ter, P e ter pumpkin ea ter had a wife and couldn’t k ee p her. Ballads. A songlike poem that tells a story, usually adventure or romance.

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POETRY TERMS

POETRY TERMS. 1. Imagery - the descriptive language used in literature to re-create sensory experiences. The images in a work supply details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement and help the reader to sense the experience being described. Imagery.

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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. Using Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. Rhyme Scheme. couplet. couplet. This poem is divided into stanzas of four lines, with two couplets (2 lines in which the last word rhymes ) in each stanza. Rhyme Scheme 2. a. a. b. b.

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Poetry terms

Poetry terms. 1 ) figurative language the use of words or phrases to express something different than their usual meanings. examples: hyperbole, imagery, metaphor, personification, and simile. Imagery. use of words that create mental pictures-helps readers see, hear, taste, smell and feel

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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. General Terms. Groups of lines in a poem. The Brain—is wider than the Sky— For—put them side by side— The one the other will contain With ease—and You—beside— The Brain is deeper than the sea— For—hold them—Blue to Blue— The one the other will absorb— As Sponges—Buckets—do—

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Poetry Terms

“In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.” -- Marianne Moore. Poetry Terms. Alliteration: The repetition of beginning sounds in a group of words as in How much d ew would a d ewdrop d rop if a d ewdrop d id d rop d ew?.

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