Quotes of Poetry

Mechanics of Poetry

The mechanics of poetry is considered before writing poems, under the following:

• Broken rhyme
• Chain rhyme
• Lamb
• Lambic Pentameter
• Meter
• Pause
• Stress
• Versification

• Broken rhyme: result of splitting a word at the end of a line to manipulate a rhyme.

• Chain rhyme: rhyming scheme where the line of the first stanza is linked to a rhyme in the next stanza, ending stanza loops back to the first stanza or ends with the last rhyme repeated.

• Lamb:a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, a short syllable followed by a long syllable.

• Lambic Pentameter: consist of two syllables repeated five times in succession where unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable within a line of verse.
  

• Meter: a measure of rhyme; (the unit of meter is the foot) Metrical lines are named for the number of feet in a line. (1) monometer, (2) dimeter, (3) trimeter, (4) tetrameter, (5) pentameter, (6) hexameter, (7) heptameter (8) octameter

• Pause: this is an interval between syllables of verse.

• Stress: special emphasis on a word, syllable, or phrase with a line of verse.

• Versification: versification is the art of writing verses.

Figures of Speech

• Imagery--to evoke a mental image (sometimes emotional), i.e a figurative language

• Irony-- expression of words used to convey an opposite meaning from the usual sense.

• Metaphor--a term used to treat two things that are not the same as equals such as "A bird swimming in the river."

• Oxymoron--the combining of two words that looks to be contradictory i.e (opposites), but offer an important effect such as a good devil, an innocent liar.
  

• Personification--a form of metaphor where an inanimate object, animal, or idea is given human-like characteristics
  

• Prose--ordinary everyday language used in speech or writing with no style or rhymes.

• Pun--a play on words that sound similar for a humorous effect.

• Repetition--a repeating sound, line, syllable, etc. bring reinforcement to the meaning of a poem.
  

• Rhyme--a recurrence of similar ending sounds at the ends of a poetic line/verse.

• Simile--a comparison between two unlike things using like or as, etc. such as white as snow, as black as charcoal.
  

Verse Forms

* A verse can be one line of poetry or a stanza.

Alexandrian--a line of poetry 12 syllables (or 13 if the last syllable is unstressed) consisting
6 iambic feet.

Blank Verse--poetry written without rhymes usually in iambic pentameterin English verse

Chain Verse--like chain rhyme, but instead of linking rhymes, words, phrases or lines are repeated in succeeding stanzas.

envoy (envoi)--a short final stanza of a poem

Free Verse--a verse form free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme)

Open Form--created through shifts, leaps, hesitations, and fragmentations in lines. It conforms to no set form, structure,or rhythmic patterns.

Refrain (chorus)--a repeated verse within a poem or song pertaining to a central topic

Stanza Forms--names describing the number of lines is an stanzaic unit, (2) couplet, (3) tercet, (4) quatrain, (5) quintet (6) sestet, (7) septet, (8) octave

Types of Poetry

These are just a very few examples of different types of poetry. I will mention some of the poems.

Acrostic

Diamante

Ballad

Song

Monody

Shape Poetry

Category of Poetry

• Love Poems
• Sad Poems
• Friendship Poems
• Poems on Life
• Poetry Buffet
• Classical Poems
• Piptalk Poetry forums