ELA.8.R.1.4

This is a series of lines grouped together in order to divide a poem.

• Stanza

• Structure

• Sound

• Imagery

This is the physical structure of the poem: the length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition.

• Form

• Line Length

• White Space

• Identation

This is is a unit of language into which a poem is divided.

• Line Length

• White Space

• Indentation

• Line Breaks

This is is when the poet or author uses blankness or emptiness to visually create an aesthetic.

• Line Length

• White Space

• Indentation

• Line Breaks

Poets sometimes indent lines (move them away from the lefthand margin) in order to complicate traditional line breaks.

• Indentation

• Line Breaks

• Stanza Breaks

• Sound

This is the termination of the line of a poem and the beginning of a new line.

• Imagery

• Sound

• Stanza Breaks

• Line Breaks

This is the blank line between stanzas.

• Form

• Line Length

• Stanza Breaks

• Sound

This can be created through the use of end rhyme, internal rhyme, slant rhyme, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, repetition, and meter.

• Sound

• End Rhyme

• Internal Rhyme

• Slant Rhyme

This is when when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.

• Sound

• End Rhyme

• Internal Rhyme

• Slant Rhyme

This is a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.

• Internal Rhyme

• Slant Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Assonance