Meter ♥

Definition: In poetry, meter is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. It's a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Example:

"Trochee trips from long to short;

From long to long in solemn sort

Slow Spondee stalks; strong foot! yea ill able

Ever to come up with Dactyl trisyllable.

Iambics march from short to long;

With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng;

One syllable long, with one short at each side,

Amphibrachys hastes with a stately stride;

First and last being long, middle short, Amphimacer

Strikes his thundering hoofs like a proud highbred Racer...

Significance: It makes the poem more interesting to read because we can have feelings when we read that poem. It will give the message to the reader when they feel excited and satisfy. In a poem must have meter in order to make the reader not fall asleep.

Elegy ♥

Definition: A mournful poem, composed in elegiac couplets, serious reflection or typically a lament for the dead.

Example:

On September the nineteenth 1586 in London Tower
When the bloom of his young life was decaying like a flower
Dying in the cool winds of the early Fall
In words his tragic life he did recall.

Chidioch Tichborne to something beautiful to gave life
In his farewell elegy to Agnes his wife
An elegy still read and popular today
True greatness can be slow for to meet decay.

Accused as being in a failed plot to murder Elizabeth England's Queen
His best days as a poet he had not seen
Hung drawn and quartered a brutal way to die
Such a death to justice surely gives the lie.

Executed in his twenty eight year even in those times that was young
But he did not remain as one unsung
His gift of life may have been snatched from him in his prime
But his life story and his elegy have withstood the test of time.

Chidioch Tichborne (1558-1586)

Significance: The importance of elegy is the poets can express their feelings when they have something really bad happen to them. Elegy makes them feel better when the poets bring all of their heart in that poem. The reader maybe upset about something, they can borrow the poem to make them feel better after read that poem. Elegy has a lot of feelings it in because they are from the bottom of the writer's heart.

Couplet ♥

Definition: two verses have an equal length, flow well together and joined by rhyme, forming a unit.

Example:

Where-e'er you find "the cooling western breeze,"

In the next line, it "whispers through the trees;"

If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep,"

The reader's threatened (not in vain) with "sleep."

Significance: Couplet is one of the most ordinary kind of rhymes. It makes the reader understand more about the poem, and they will get the message sooner. The poem will be more enjoyable and will attract more people to read it.

Rhyme ♥

Definition: A poem or verse having a regular appropiate of sounds, especially at the ends of lines. To use (a word) or (of a word) to be used so as to form a rhyme; be or make identical in sound.)

Example:

Mary Mary quite contrary,

How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells

And pretty maids all in a row.

Significance: It makes the poem more interesting to read. When the poem rhymes, they create the rhythm in order to catch the readers ear

more. If a poem doesn't have any rhyme, we can't call it poem.

Rhythm ♥

Definition: Rhythm is a continuous and recurring beat in a poem. It can make people talk in rhythm and they can feel the beat of that poem. Rhythm can be measured in terms of heavily stressed to less stressed syllables.

Example:

The wind in her hair

The chair that sat there

Eyes on eyes

Fire and lye

in the river sky

Significance: It makes the poem not too boring and get more reader. People may dance when they got the rhythm of the poem, people may feel more interesting and the poem will be more vivid. The poet have to make sure that every poem must have a rhythm in order to attract more people. With a rhythm inside a poem, the message that the poet want to send to the reader is faster.

Personification ♥

Definition: a figure of speech in a poem that bring objects to life,

and descirbe it as a human like it have humans feelings and thoughts

Example:

"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"said the sunflowers, shining with dew."Our traveling habits have tired us.Can you give us a room with a view?"

They arranged themselves at the window
and counted the steps of the sun,
and they both took root in the carpet
where the topaz tortoises run.

(William Blake)

Significance: The importance of personification is it makes the poem more live-like and more interesting to read. We can borrow an object to express our feelings instead of just having a person talking about their feelings because if we use personification it will be more original.

Speaker ♥

Definition: The person who presents the poem or the 1st person in a poem "I"

Example: The speaker for this poem in 8th grade was Shane Tran.

Significance: The importance of speaker is it tells who the feelings are from and who is speaking in the poem .Sometimes it provides information about characters in order to make audience understand about the poem.