Poetry Structure

Poems are made up of units (like paragraphs). These are called...

• Blocks

• Stanzas

• Rhymes

• Lines

When a sound, word, phrase, or entire line is repeated in a poem.

• Rhyme

• Rhyme Scheme

• Repetition

• Rhythm

Which is true of a couplet?

• A couplet is 3 lines together

• A couplet is 2 lines together

• A couplet doesn't rhyme

• A couplet is 2 lines together that rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I'm out of my head

With thinking of you

What is the rhyme scheme?

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABBA

• ABCA

How many stanzas does this poem have?

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued

• 3

• 2

• 1

• none

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.5

True or False: A poem has to rhyme.

• True

• False

True/False: This poem has a couplet.

I made myself a snowball

As perfect as could be

I thought I'd keep it as a pet

And let it sleep with me

I made it some pajamas

And a pillow for its head

Then last night it ran away

But first-it wet the bed.

• True

• False

True/False: This poem has a couplet.

How I long to go and play

Out by the beautiful sea

It is the only way I'll feel free

Not to mention I can look

For shells and other treasures

• True

• False