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    This document introduces some key concepts for analyzing poetry through a series of example texts and questions about what constitutes a poem. It discusses poetic elements like rhyme, rhythm, lines, and stanzas. Students are prompted to consider whether given texts are poems based on their form and use of literary devices. The document serves as an introduction to help middle school students start exploring and discussing the characteristics of poetry.

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    An Introduction

    to Poetry
    By C. Cheong for SSHS Middle School

    Gust Becos I Cud Not Spel


    Gust becos I cud not spel
    It did not mean I was daft
    When the boys in school red my riting
    Some of them laffed
    But now I am the dictater
    They have to rite like me
    Utherwise they cannot pas
    Ther GCSE
    Some of the girls were ok
    But those who laffed a lot
    Have al bean rownded up
    And hav recintly bean shot
    The teecher who corrected my speling
    As not been shot at al
    But four the last fifteen howers
    As bean standing up against a wal
    He has to stand ther until he can spel
    Figgymisgrugifooniyn the rite way
    I think he will stand ther for ever
    I just inventid it today

    Lines

    The way it
    looks
    The way it
    sounds.

    Stanzas

    Spaces

    e.g. daft, laffed


    Flow

    The
    meaning????

    Rhyme

    Rhythm

    Its deepor not?


    It gets you to think??...
    Or not

    Someone
    thought to
    publish it

    It represents
    someones
    thoughts

    or feelings

    Patten
    Q:Brian
    This
    text is obviously a poem but .HOW DO WE
    KNOW???

    Is it a Poem Text 1
    Watermelon
    Juicy, sweet
    Dripping, slurping, smacking
    So messy to eat
    Yummy

    Why?

    Why not?

    Is it a Poem Text 2
    "The Devil's Company, a treat for lovers of
    historical fiction, sees the return of
    Benjamin Weaver in his third exciting romp
    through the varied and sometimes
    surreal landscape of 18th-century London.

    Why?

    Why not?

    Is it a Poem Text 3
    A stitch in time
    saves nine
    A bird in the
    hand

    Why?

    Why not?

    Is it a Poem Text 4

    Why?

    ider,
    p
    s
    t
    n
    e
    i
    t
    less pa
    A noise
    n a little
    o
    e
    r
    e
    h
    w
    olated,
    s
    i
    I markd
    d
    o
    o
    t
    tory it s
    promon
    lore the
    p
    x
    e
    o
    t
    how
    Markd
    dings,
    n
    u
    o
    r
    r
    u
    ast s
    vacant v
    ment,
    a
    l
    fi
    h
    t
    r
    hd fo
    itself,
    f
    o
    t
    If launc
    u
    o
    ,
    t
    filamen
    ,
    t
    n
    e
    m
    fila
    , ever
    m
    e
    h
    t
    g
    reelin
    Ever un
    them.
    g
    n
    i
    d
    e
    e
    y sp
    tirelessl

    Why not?

    Is it a Poem Text 5
    Fleas
    Adam Hadem

    Why?

    Why not?

    Is it a Poem Text 6
    d." That
    n
    ie
    r
    f
    t
    s
    e
    b
    an's
    "A dog is m
    ntain some
    o
    c
    y
    a
    m
    g
    in
    y
    common sa
    ot the only
    n
    e
    r
    a
    s
    g
    o
    d
    truth, but
    nionship
    a
    p
    m
    o
    c
    e
    s
    o
    d wh
    animal frien
    eople, a cat
    p
    y
    n
    a
    m
    r
    o
    y. F
    people enjo
    friend.
    t
    s
    e
    b
    ir
    e
    th
    is

    Why?

    Why not?

    Is it a Poem Text 7
    Watermelon
    Juicy, sweet
    Dripping, slurping, smacking
    So messy to eat
    Yummy

    Why?

    Why not?

    Is it a Poem Text 8

    Why?

    think
    u
    o
    y
    o
    d
    What
    )
    y
    l
    i
    r
    g
    n
    JIM: (a
    oing?
    d
    e
    r
    ou? I
    '
    y
    u
    o
    t
    r
    y
    u
    h
    did I
    ,
    y
    r
    r
    o
    s
    ,
    Oh
    h ad
    u
    o
    y
    EDDIE:
    t
    a
    ing wh
    r
    e
    d
    n
    o
    tw
    was jus
    bag.
    t
    a
    h
    t
    n
    i
    th you?
    i
    w
    o
    d
    s it to
    '
    t
    a
    h
    W
    oney
    m
    JIM:
    r
    e
    n
    y din
    m
    t
    o
    g
    r
    o
    If
    EDDIE:
    ungry.
    h
    m
    '
    I
    nd
    today. A
    l unch
    s
    '
    M
    I
    J
    grabs
    E
    I
    D
    D
    E
    (

    Why not?

    Is it a Poem Text 9
    y,
    ad d ad d
    s
    y
    r
    e
    v
    a
    nce was
    o
    e
    r
    e
    h
    T
    g qui t e
    in
    o
    g
    s
    a
    ew
    g ol f g am
    e
    s
    o
    h
    W
    badly.

    nd right
    a
    t
    f
    le
    ed
    He look
    h t.
    as in sig
    w
    l
    l
    a
    b
    !
    No
    a c ad d y
    d
    e
    d
    e
    e
    n
    that he
    I think

    Why?

    Why not?

    Brainstorm..

    Poetry is.

    Definition continued
    Come up with a working definition of poetry.

    Definitions/Glossary
    Use the web, dictionaries and discussion to arrive
    at definitions of the following:
    Rhyme
    Rhythm
    A Line A Stanza
    Free Verse

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