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A CONCRETE POEM is one with a shape that suggests its subject. (See
lines long, but sometimes more. The word literally means inscription and they
originally were inscribed on tombs.
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single vivid emotion by means of images from nature has a certain amount of
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and feelings of a single speaker. They were at one time sung, but not
today. They still have a musical quality that is achieved through rhythm and
other devices such as alliteration and rhyme.
a. A SONNET is a 14 line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter.
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remember that the speaker and the poet are not the same person, not more than
an actor is the playwright. The speaker within the poem may be a person, an
animal, a thing, or an abstraction.
d. STRUCTURE OF POETRY
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lines. This verse form was widely used by Elizabethan dramatists like William
Shakespeare.
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unit. Often the stanzas in a poem are separated by spaces. Stanzas are
sometimes named according to the number of lines found in them.
a. 2 lines ---- couplet
b. 3 lines ---- tercet
c. 4 lines ---- quatrain
d. 5 lines ---- cinquain
e. 6 lines ---- sestet
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WAYS TO MEANING
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senses sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell. Writers use images to re-create
sensory experiences in words.
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it, but sometimes just in fun. The following lines are Lewis Carrolls parody of
the familiar childrens rhyme, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: