Meter
Definition: meter in a poem is the pattern of words that are either "stressed" or "unstressed" in a single line of poetry. The stressed and  unstressed signs are based on either there is a repititional form of the word that will be expressed through rhyming in others sections of the poem.

Example:

"Shall I com PARE thee TO a SUM mer’s DAY?"

There are 5 meters in this poem, because there are 10 syllables, and the second syllable in the line is a  poem. Therefore, there are 5. Five meters in a poem= a pentameter.

Significance: The importance of meters in a poem is that it can be used in many forms or types of poems. Mainly, it can be used to focus on the format/pattern of haikus, but there are also many other poems that require such number of patterns and the ideal format of meters.

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Rhyme

Rhyme

Definition: rhyme in a poem a form of a couplet. In my opinion, rhyme can be used to make poetry more fun, and intresting.

Example:
"How did it get so late so soon?
It’s night before it’s afternoon.
December is here before it’s June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?"

~Dr. Seuss

This poem has rhyme, because each couplet rhymes at the end of the first and second line. They sound similiar and has repitition.

Significance: Rhyme in a poem can be useful and important because it can be used to make th epoem more fun, and intresting to read for the audience, allowing it access to the message/theme or importance of the poem by expressing it in a fun, and yet silly way.

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Rhythm

Rhythm
Definition:  in a poem, rhythm is the tempo, or way the poem is read. Rhythm can be heard in a childish (Dr.Seuss) way, or more serious (Shakespeare) form. Rhythm can also be used to show mood, or setting in a poem.

Example: There are many types of rhythm in a poem.

For Example:

1) "How did it get so late so soon?
It’s night before it’s afternoon.
December is here before it’s June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?"

~Dr. Seuss

2) "Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire!
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green;
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours;
In those freckles live their savours;
I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear."

~William Shakespeare

Both poems are interpreted in different ways. This dephends on mood, and setting. It comes froms not only the poem itself, but the way the poem is read. If it is read sillily as in Dr.Seuss, then you can interpret from this that the setting and mood can be ridiculous, or childish. In a Shakespeare's poem however, you get a feeling that the poem is to be taken seriously, and that there was alot of thought put into the specific poem. It gives you a vibe, and a feel.



Signficance: The rhythm in a poem is important because it can be used to describe/interpret setting, mood, and the way the poet meant the poem was to be taken/read. From context, you can don't get as much than from reading with good rhythm. This is what gives you a better chance of understanding a poem as you read it aloud and with thought, than in your head.

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Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia:

Definition: the definition of an onomatopoeia is a sound in a poems

Example:

"Slam! Slam!
Go the car doors.
Jangle! Jangle!
Go the house keys.
Jiggle! Jiggle!
Go the keys in the door.
Squeak!
Goes the front door!
Thump! Thump!
That is me running down the stairs.
Guess what?
Mom and Dad are home!!"
By: Natasha Niemi

This poem shows you sounds in the poem

Significance: Onomatopoeias are important because they show sounds that are easy to understand. It helps the reader relate to and interpret the poem better.

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Personification

Personfication:

Definition:  Personification is when you give human traits and characteristics to any object,animal, or thing that isn't human.

Example:
"The teapot sang as the water boiled
The ice cubes cackled in their glass
the teacups chattered to one another.
While the chairs were passing gas
The gravy gurgled merrily
As the oil danced in a pan.
Oh my dinnertime chorus
What a lovely, lovely clan!"

By: Sharon Hendricks

This poem talks about objects and non-human things like tea cups and ice cubes and giving them human traits and characteristics.

Significance: Personification in a poem is important because without personification, poets would not be able to compare non-human obeects or animals, and give them human characteristics. This gives you better undetstanding of the poem, and compares them with one another in a way that is both understandable, and easy to comprehend.

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Imagery

Imagery:

Definition: imagery is a visual presentation in a poem that expresses and brings forth intrest in reading the poem.

Example: "It was a dark, and stormy night". This quote can be used in a poem and it would show that the specific setting of the poem was indeed a dark and stormy night. Thsi gtives you a visual image in your mind.

Significance: The importance of imagery is making the poem stronger. By giving you a visual image, it can be easier to relate to, and easier to interpret in your mind.

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Simile

Simile:

Definition: a simile is comparing two or more objects using the words "like" or "as".

Example: you are as fat as a pig.

Significance: The importance of a simile is using them to compare two objects to make the poem stronger, and easier to understand. Thus, it helps make the poem simpler, and easier to interpret.

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Methapor

Metaphor:

Definition: a methapor is a way of comparing two different objects or ideas without using the words both "like" or "as".

Example:

"My family lives inside a medicine chest:
Dad is the super-size band aid, strong and powerful
but not always effective in a crisis.
Mom is the middle-size tweezer,
which picks and pokes and pinches.
David is the single small aspirin on the third shelf,
sometimes ignored.
Muffin, the sheep dog, is a round cotton ball, stained and dirty,
that pops off the shelf and bounces in my way as I open the door.
And I am the wood and glue which hold us all together with my love."

By: Belinda

In the first line it says "my family lives inside a medicine chest". Her family does not actually live inside one, but he is relating to the fact that he is comparing his family to the chest.

Significance: Metaphors are important in a poem because it gives the poem intrest. It makes it more intresting to read by making refrences and comparisons. Through metaphors, poets can make the message or theme of the poem more intresting to find.

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Repitition

Repitition:

Definition: Repititions im poems are constantly used phrases, or terms (repeated words).

Example:

"A Waste Of Time:"
Telling the wind not to blow
Telling the tide not to turn
Telling a river not to flow
Telling fire not to burn
Telling birds not to fly
Telling frogs not to hop
Telling babies not to cry
Telling bubbles not to pop
Telling rain not to fall
Telling lightning not to flash
Telling cuckoos not to call
Telling water not to splash
Telling dogs not to wag
Telling the sun not to shine
 Telling parents not to nag
And telling children not to whine!"

By: Mike Jubb

This poem has the repeated word "Telling" at the beginning of every line. This is an example of repitition.

Significance: Repitition in a poem can be important and useful in a various amount of ways. For example, you can repeat the word "Sadness" over and over again at the beginning or end of every line, because you want to constantly remind the reader that sadness is key, and is related to the message of the poem. Repitition can be used to help undestand the importance of a poem.

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Tone

Tone:

Definition: the tone of the poem is the setting or the way it is read. There can be a various ways of reading a poem through different types of tones.

Example:

"Into the night hold me tight
Love me babe I need some light
What's wrong and what's right
When shadows dwell and abide

Sad sad sad in blue
For sad sad sad you
The moon is all bluish tonight
Is there some star shoot in sight
To wish upon
For sad sad sad you

Into the night take a flight
Feelings, touch, everything out sight
Love me with feelings ok
Come come babe now closer stay

Sad sad sad in blue
For sad sad sad you
The moon is all bluish tonight
Is there some star shoot in sight
To wish upon
For sad sad sad you"             

By Peter S. Quinn

By this poem, you can tell the tone of this poem is sad, because it is about depressing thoughts, and/or feelings.

Significance: The importance of "tone" in a poem is that the tone is what gives the poem (in a way) some intresting aspects. It makes you want to read more, and drawns you into it. You can easily tell either if its a happy, or sad poem, from its tone.

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Interpretation

Interpretation:

Definition: interpretation in poetry is how you read it, and how you translate the poem and put it in your own words.

Example: For example, in "Oh Captain, My Captain" by Walt Whitman. we interpreted that the captain was Abraham Lincoln.

Significance: Interpretation in a poem is important abecause the whole idea of a poem is to undestand the meaning of the poem. Through interpretation, this is possible in your own way, making the poem more intresting to read.

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Speaker

Speaker:

Definition: the person that is trying to reach out and speak to the audience, or reader.

Example:

"Only your word will heal the injury
To my hurt heart, while yet the wound is clean
Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly
Their beauty shakes me who was once serene" -Geoffery Chaucer

This would be an example of "speaker", because the poet is trying reach out to the reader, and put the audience in his shoes, and view the poem through his eyes.

Significance: There is an importance in speaking, because speaking is the whole purpose of poetry. It is to reach out and express the emotions, or feelings the reader should be experiencing through the poet's words.

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Symbolism

Symbolism:

Definition: A symbol in a poem is used to express thoughts, emotions, and feelings, through words with meaning.

Example:

The Sick Rose:"O Rose, thou art sick.
The invisible worm
That flies in the night
In the howling storm

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy."
Signficance: Symbolism in a poem is by far the most important element. Without it, the whole purpose for a poem would be pointless. A poem is supposed to be used to express thoughts, feelings, and emotios, but you cant do the following without symbolism. Symbolism is used for bringing forth object, action, or emotion through words with deep and powerful meaning.

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Couplet

Couplet

Definition: A pair (two) lines of poetry brought together by rhyming. All couplets are stanzas, but not all stanzas are couplets/

Example:

"It was purchased just for you,
when you're happy or you're blue,
you can wear it on your head,
around the house or in your bed,
you can wear it in the dark,
while you're strolling in the park." -Sam French

Significance: A couplet in a poem is important because of the way the poem is read. The couplet rhymes, making it more fun to read, and making is more enjoyable. Couplet usually reaches out to young people, because poetry to them is like Dr.Seuss, not Shakespeare. Couplet is a more fun way of reading poetry.\

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Stanza

Stanza

Definition: A group or set of lines in a poem.

Example:

"I try to move forward, i swear i do
These chains of despair restrain me, hold me back
Chains i bound myself to, which foretell of a moat ahead
Which i'll fall into, if i try to progress" -Aman Biswas

Significance: Stanzas are important because it helps organize, and give structure to the poem.

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Poetry

Definition: The form of fun and emotional literature, to bring forth vivid, and explicit entertaining thoughts

Example:

Feelings:

Hunger, temptation longing
laughter, joy and tears.
Anger, loving, curiosity
hopeful, happiness and fears.
All these are inside me
And they all are coming out.
Don’t know if I’m coming or going
Or to scream or shout!

                By- Sharon Hendricks

Significance:

   Poetry teaches us alot about art. Poetry is enjoyed by both young and old. Poetry expresses thoughts of emotions, problems, and life. Poetry makes us think in a different way than just simply speaking or talking.