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♪ All About Poetry ♪
Words and Music: Étienne

Whether you think it’s for the better or for the worse,
a poem doesn’t have to rhyme; free verse.
These words, you’ll know them.
They help make a poem.
Put words together for your friends and show them.
Poems come in many forms for many pallets;
like haiku, sonnet, free verse and ballads.
The rhythm or metre is the beat of the lines;
the predictable rhythm that the poem defines.
Rhyming patterns vary.
AB, CB,
AA, BB.
There are plenty.
(STOP! Do you want me to explain?!?)

Shakespeare wrote fourteen-line poems called sonnets
With paper he put set rhyme schemes on it
A ballad is a poem in songlike form
Found short and narrative is quite the norm
Free verse is a common form of poetry
It may or may not rhyme it’s a modern style, you see
Haiku; seventeen syllables, in a three-line form
To a five-seven -five pattern it must conform
(STOP! Are you getting this?)

Poetry doesn’t have many rules
But, here is a list of some useful tools
Alliteration, metaphor, repetition,
Onomatopoeia, simile, personification
(STOP! Look, could you please explain?!?)

Alliteration, like rhyme, is a repetition of sound
The first letters of words are where it’s often found
Repetition is used to make its point
Repetition is used to make its point
Onomatopoeia uses words to imitate
Like bang or plop its imagery relates
Personification gives human qualities
to an animal, object or conceptualities
Similes make comparisons in poems
Using as or like
Metaphors compare without these words.
(Example) “I’m the biker and the bike.”


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