Poetry Exercise:

STEP 1: Write at abstract

idea at the top of their
paper
Poetry Exercise:
STEP 2: Create a list down to the
bottom of the page. Here, you may
find the beginnings of a poem, or a
wonderful line, in some of your lists
FRUSTRATIONS
◦ Feeling tired
◦ Not having enough time
◦ Being misunderstood
◦ Not able to speak clearly
◦ Having a disagreement
◦ Being late
◦ Feeling incompetent
◦ Feeling depressed
 ELEMENTS OF
SPECIFIC LITERARY
FORMS
 “POETIC PROCESS BEGINS
ONLY WHEN IDEAS ARE
CONCEIVED AND ENDS ONLY
WHEN A FORM IS ACHIEVED”
SONNET 18: SHALL I
COMPARE THEE TO A
SUMMER’S DAY?
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
◦ Greatest writer in English language
◦ Playwright, poet, actor
◦ Born in Elizabethan England in the
16th century
◦ Expressed universal themes like love,
beauty and time through his sonnets
◦ Wrote in iambic pentameter
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Discussion Questions:
1.What is the theme of the poem?
2.How many syllables are there in each
line?
3.How do you describe the rhythm of the
poem?
Conventional poetry
◦Adheres to a definite verse structure or
set of characteristics
◦Fixed rhyme and metrical patterns all
throughout the poem
Rhyme
◦Repetition of similar sounding words at
the end of lines
◦Differentiates poem form prose
◦Used to render pleasing effect to a poem
KINDS OF RHYME
1. Perfect rhyme
◦ Two words rhyme is such a way
that their final stressed vowel and
the following sounds are identical
2. General rhyme
◦Varieties of phonetic likeness
between words
a. Syllabic rhyme
◦Bottle and fiddle
◦Cleaver and silver
◦Patter and pitter
b. Imperfect rhyme
◦Wing and caring
◦Reflect and subject
c. Assonance/slant rhyme
◦Kill and bill
◦Wall and hall
◦Shake and bake
d. consonance
◦Rabbit and robber
◦Ship and sheep
e. alliteration/head rhyme

◦Seal and sea

◦Ship and short
◦Top and tip
f. Eye rhyme
◦Cough and bough
◦Love and move
CLASSIFICATION OF
RHYME ACCDG. TO
POSITIONS
1. Tail Rhyme
◦Occurs in the final
syllable of a verse or a
line
Example:

“Twinkle, twinkle little star

How I wonder what you are”
2. Internal Rhyme
◦A word at the end of a
verse rhymes with another
word in the same line
Example:
The ship was cheer’d, the harbor clear’d
…
And every day, for food or play
3. Holorhyme
◦The words in the line
rhymes entirely with the
next line
4. Cross Rhyme
◦Matching sounds occur at
the end of the intervening
lines
Example:
Raging waves elope the gilt sun
Rage in waives, eh? Lope the guilt’s swan!
Example:
“Had I but lived a hundred years ago
I might have gone, as I have gone this year,
By Warmell Cross on to a Cove I know.
And time has places in his finger on me there”
Exercise:
◦ With your groups, write a four-line stanza showing
the following kinds and classification of rhymes:
◦ Group 1 – perfect rhyme and tail rhyme
◦ Group 2 – syllabic rhyme and internal rhyme
◦ Group 3 – imperfect rhyme and cross rhyme
◦ Group 4 – Alliteration and holorhyme
Meter
◦ The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a
verse or within the line of the poem
◦ Provides sound patterns to give rhythmical and
melodious sound
◦ Measured in terms of feet/foot
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

1 2 3 4 5

Iambic pentameter
Types of meter in relation to the number of stressed
and unstressed combinations:

Monometer 1 foot
dimeter 2 feet
trimeter 3 feet
tetrameter 4 feet
pentameter 5 feet
hexameter 6 feet
Heptameter 7 feet
octameter 8 feet
5 basic meters:
1.Iambic (unstressed + stressed)
2.Trochaic (stressed + unstressed)
3.Spondaic (stressed + stressed)
4.Dactylic (stressed + unstressed + unstressed)
5.Anapestic (unstressed + stressed + stressed)
 FORMS OF
CONVENTIONAL
POETRY