Form and Structure - Poetry GCSE

What form would a poem be written in if it were written in the form of a speech from one person where we only hear one voice?

• Shakespearean Sonnet

• Dramatic Monologue

• Villanelle

• Free Verse

A Shakespearean poem consists of 14 lines divided into three quatrains and one heroic couplet. The lines are written using iambic pentameter and there is a strict rhyme scheme of (a)   .

What do you call a poem with 14 lines divided into two sections: an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE?

• Petrarchan Ballad

• Couplets

• A Shakespearean Verse

• Petrarchan Sonnet

A 5 line stanza is called a (a)   .

Tercets are _ lined stanzas.

(a)  

What meter is the following line written in:

'The things / which I / have seen / I now / can see / no more. '

• Anapestic Tetrameter

• Iambic Pentameter

• Iambic Hexameter

• Trochaic Trimeter

Identify the name for the primary meter it were 'stressed/stressed', just like you are right now.

• Trochaic

• Dactylic

• Anapestic

• Spondee

• A rhyming scheme with words that sound similar but not exactly the same is called _____ _____.

(a)  

When the ending takes the reader back to the beginning - may denote some kind of doom or inevitability or a lack of progress. This is called a ________ _________.

(a)  

What is a volta?

• When a word is spelt the way it sounds - helps imitate the speaker’s particular voice

• When there is a change in tone, thought or argument (often included in sonnets)

• It is when an exclamation mark is used.

• When there is punctuation.