Analyzing Poems

What is poetry?

• A written work that uses figurative language and rhythms to show meaning.

• A story with a beginning, middle, and end.

• An informative written work that uses facts and data.

Analyzing for STRUCTURE means looking for...

• rhyme scheme

• stanzas and lines

• quatrains and couplets

• all the above

A poem with 14 lines.

• free verse

• sonnet

• villanelle

• haiku

A poem with 19 lines.

• free verse

• sonnet

• villanelle

• haiku

A verse of poetry with 4 rhyming lines.

• couplet

• quatrain

• stanza

• line

A verse of poetry with 2 rhyming lines.

• couplet

• quatrain

• stanza

• line

The unit of lines in a poem that look like a paragraph:

• couplet

• quatrain

• stanza

• line

a repeated line in a poem

• refrain

• tercet

• rhyme scheme

the pattern of rhyme in a poem, based on the last word in each line of the poem

• refrain

• quatrain

• rhythm

• rhyme scheme

Analyze poems using SWIFT. What does the S stand for?

• Structure

• sounds

• synonyms