Elements of Poetry

 1.Speaker

    -the narrative value of the poem, the persona/voice of a poem can be first person “I” , second person “ you”, the third person “ he or she”, or the public person ( large audience,   like society)

2. Subject

    -the topic of the poem  such as nature, love, death, and other life events.

3. Theme

   - defined as a main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly

4. Tone 

  - the attitude you feel in it

  - the writer’s attitude toward the subject or audience

 - the tone can be formal or informal, serious or humorous, sad or happy

5. Form

 - refers to a type of poem that follows a particular set of rules, whether it be the number of lines, the length or number of stanzas, rhyme scheme, subject matter, or really whatever you can think of

6. Sound

  - rhyme, rhythm, alliteration

7. Rhythm 

  - a literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form

8. Rhyme 

 - a repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs

9. Stanzas

 - a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyming scheme 

* couplet (2 lines)

* tercet (3 ines)

* quatrain (4 lines)

* cinquain (5 lines)

* sestet (6 lines) ( sometimes it’s called sixtain)

* septet (7 lines)

* octave (8 lines)

10. Imagery 

  - uses its 5 senses to point a picture on image in the redear’s mind

11. Diction

 - can be defined as style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer

12. Meter 

 - a stressed and unstressed syllable pattern in verse or within the lines of a poem 

 - stressed syllables tend to be longer, and unstressed syllables are shorter

13. Symbolism 

 - the use of a specific object or an image to represent an idea

 - represents something other than its literal meaning