Reading and Writing Poetry

READING AND
WRITING:
Poetry
PROSE
VS.
POETRY
Prose
• Written or spoken language in its ordinary form
without metrical structure that follows
ordinary grammatical structure.
• Genres like short stories; novels; essays are

typically written in prose.
Poetry
• literary work in which special intensity is given
to the expression of ideas by the use of
distinctive style and rhythm.
• music of the heart, the language of the soul,

the expression of the parts we do not see in
humans
P-utting words
O-n paper to
E-xpress in part,
T-houghts from me
R-ight to
Y-our heart.
ELEMENTS OF POETRY
ELEMENTS
LITERARY DEVICES
POETRY is considered to be the counterpart of
PROSE
3 S’ POETRY PROSE
SENTENCES &
STRUCTURE STANZA & LINES
PARAGRAPH
COLORFUL
SENSE DIRECT
LANGUAGE
RHYME,
SOUND MONOLOGUE
RHYTHYM, METER
1. LINE
• Counterpart of sentences in
prose
• May or may not have fixed
number of syllables based on
the type of poem
2. STANZA
• Counterpart of paragraphs
in prose
• Group of lines
• Has TYPES based on the
number of lines that
compose it
TYPES OF STANZA
• A. COUPLET - two lines
• B. TERCET – three lines
• C. TERZA RIMA – three stanzas
of three lines
• D. QUATRAIN – four lines
• E. SESTET – six lines
• F. OCTET – eight lines
• G. CINQUAIN – five lines
• H. SEPTET – seven lines
3. METER –
measurement of
the poem
TWO WAYS TO IDENTIFY THE
METER OF THE POEM
• 1. Looking at the syllables count
of each line
• 2. Looking at the arrangement
and number of STRESSED and
UNSTRESSED syllables in each
line.
Unit/foot/Syllables
METER
Count
Iambic Three unit/feet(6
Trimeter syllables)
Iambic
Four unit/feet (8 syllables)
Tetrameter
Iambic Five unit/feet (10
Pentameter syllables)
Iambic
Six unit/feet (12 syllables)
Hexameter
My Dim Heart
by Maica Jill N. De Guzman
Silent tears of pain,
The Lord enters my dim heart
Renewed strength and faith
Si/lent/ tears /of/ pain/,
The/ Lord/ en/ters/ my/

dim/ heart/
Re/newed/ strength/ and/
Types of METER
1.ACCENTUAL METER – each line has a
fixed number of stresses, but varies in
the total number of syllables.
“The cat sat on the mat.”
Stressed syllables: cat, sat, mat

Unstressed syllables: the, on, the
Types of METER
2. SYLLABIC METER – each line has a fixed
number of syllables, but varies in the total
number stresses.
Example:
“The sky is very blue,
And the sun shines so bright,
I feel light and free, too,
In the warm summer light.”
Types of METER
3. ACCENTUAL-SYLLABIC METER – each line has the same
number of stressed and non-stressed syllables in a fixed
order.
Example: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?“
• Mark Stresses:
Shall I / com-PARE / thee TO / a SUM- / mer's DAY?
• Count Syllables: There are ten syllables in total.
Identify the Feet:
•The pattern is: iambic (unstressed-stressed) with five feet
per line.
Recognize the Meter:
•This line follows iambic pentameter.
Types of METER
4. FREE VERSE –
lines have irregular
patterns of stresses
and syllables.
4. RHYME –
pertains to the
likeness of the
sound.
A poem without a RHYME is a
BLANK VERSE.
We will identify the TYPES OF
RHYME
A. based on the position
B. based on the syllables count
C. based on the likeness of sound
TYPES OF RHYME
A. END RHYME – the most
common type of rhyme which
can be found at the end of the
lines.
TYPES OF RHYME
B. INTERNAL/LEONINE
RHYME – the rhyme which
can be found in between two
or more words in a single line.
TYPES OF RHYME
C. MASCULINE RHYME –
the rhyme consisting of a
single stressed syllable as
in “car” and “far”.
TYPES OF RHYME
• D. FEMININE RHYME – the
rhyme consisting of a
stressed syllable followed by
unstressed syllable, as in
“mother” and “father”
TYPES OF RHYME
E. PERFECT RHYME –
the exact match of
sounds in a rhyme, as in
“ask” and “task”
TYPES OF RHYME
F. SLANT RHYME – the
imperfect rhyme, also called
oblique rhyme or off rhyme,
wherein the sounds are
similar but not exactly the
same, as in “port” and “heart.”
5. RHYTHM
• pertains to the
succession and
alteration of rhymes
6. RHYME
SCHEME/Rhythmic
Pattern
• This is done by assigning
letters to each rhyme of
the poem.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a Cloud
The floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
7. TONE
• Is the overall impression a poet makes
towards its readers. It is simply the
emotions the writer in conveying
through poetry.
• It is highly affected by the writer’s
choice of words – DICTION
• e.g. Mad, Sad, Angry, Happy, Excited,
Serious, Furious, etc.
8. THEME
• Simply means the general idea
of the topic of the poem/ a piece
of writing.
• COMMON THEME
• Family, love, revenge,
inspiration, friendship,
overcoming fear, etc.
9. LESSON
• It is simply the moral or
the value inculcated in
the words of poetry
9 ELEMENTS IN POETRY
• LINE
• STANZA
• METER
• RHYME
• RHYME SCHEME
• RHYTHYM
• TONE
• THEME
• LESSON
LITERARY
TECHNIQUES
AND DEVICES
LITERARY TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES
•DICTION – Diction is the
choice of words writers
use to communicate
their ideas.
•IMAGERY – use of
descriptive language to
paint a picture in the mind
of the readers with the
appeal of the FIVE SENSES
•FIGURES OF SPEECH –
are the expressions that
deviate from literal
meaning to add color to
a language.
Elements
for Specific
Forms
1. Conventional Forms
highly structured
arrangements of meter
and rhyme patterns.
• Tanaga is a type of short Filipino
poem, consisting of four lines with
seven syllables each with the same
rhyme at the end of each line that
is to say a 7777 syllable form, with
an AAAA or AABB rhyme pattern.
Example:
Parang talang marikit
May taglay na pang-akit
Hangad niyang makamit
Wag sanang ipagkait
• Diona has three lines
with 7 syllables every
line and one rhyming
scheme
• Haiku by Matsuo Basho a
form of Japanese poetry with
17 syllables in three
unrhymed lines o 5-7-5
syllables describing nature
or season
• Sonnet –
fourteen-line
rhyming poem with
set structure.
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
By William Shakespeare
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire,
Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by.
This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more
strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
2. Free verse –
unrhymed poetry
with no meter
3. Other
Experimental
text
Typography
•Typography is the art and technique of
arranging type to make written language
legible, readable, and appealing when
displayed.
•The term typography is also applied to the
style, arrangement, and appearance of the
letters, numbers, and symbols created by the
process.
Prose
• Written in paragraphs
• Tells a story rather than
describes an image or metaphor
• Generally has characters and a
plot
Poetry:
• Written in verse
• Written in poetic meter
• Focuses on image-driven metaphors
• Might have a narrative, but it might

not or it might be harder to
understand
Prose poem
• Looks like prose (written in
paragraphs)
• Focuses on images
• Includes instances of poetic
meter
• Contains language play, such as
repetition
ATTRACTION
She collected men the way a light left on collected bugs. It
was an old story—money, gravity, the right amount of
cleavage. And yet the most successful root never stops
fleeing the seed where it began. The cars of two drunks
decide to kiss, the lit match gives in to the windy field.
Here’s a lesson: When people heard there was an albino
deer in the woods behind our house, they set out the apples
and corn. That was twenty years ago. The shotgun pellets
stuck in our tree continue their slow ascent.
-Charles Rafferty
Performance poetry/ Spoken
Poetry
• A form of poetry intended to be
performed as a dramatic
monologue or exchange and
frequently involving improvisation.
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• Genres like short stories; novels; essays are

• music of the heart, the language of the soul,

Si/lent/ tears /of/ pain/,

The/ Lord/ en/ters/ my/

“The cat sat on the mat.”

Stressed syllables: cat, sat, mat

Example: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?“

• Might have a narrative, but it might

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