Loe’s AP English Lit ALL Poetry Examples – Flashcards

repetition of the initial consonant sound Shut the shutter before it makes you shudder. (TS)

repeating consonant sounds within words Shelley sells shells by the seashore. (TS) "She ate seven sandwiches on a sunny Sunday last year." (KNM)

a sound which is pleasant "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch -eves run; To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees,..." lullaby music. a beautiful singing voice. a talented string quartet. "Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed." -Success by Emily Dickinson (KNM)

the sound of the word echoes what it represents (buzz, rattle, snarl)

poetry

poetry whose shape reflects the theme Easter Wings BY GEORGE HERBERT Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poore: With thee O let me rise As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day thy victories: Then shall the fall further the flight in me. My tender age in sorrow did beginne And still with sicknesses and shame. Thou didst so punish sinne, That I became Most thinne. With thee Let me combine, And feel thy victorie: For, if I imp my wing on thine, Affliction shall advance the flight in me.

a song/poem about death

poems which tell a story "Is My Team Plowing" Housman "Is my team ploughing, That I was used to drive And hear the harness jingle When I was man alive?" Ay, the horses trample, The harness jingles now; No change though you lie under The land you used to plough.

14 lines of iambic pentameter

has an octave (first 8 lines) and a sestet (last 6). Octave usually states a problem or asks a question, and the sestet answers or expands on the octave. Rhyme scheme: abba abba then a combo of c,d,e I Find no Peace BY SIR THOMAS WYATT I find no peace, and all my war is done. I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice. I fly above the wind, yet can I not arise; And nought I have, and all the world I season. That loseth nor locketh holdeth me in prison And holdeth me not—yet can I scape no wise— Nor letteth me live nor die at my device, And yet of death it giveth me occasion. Without eyen I see, and without tongue I plain. I desire to perish, and yet I ask health. I love another, and thus I hate myself. I feed me in sorrow and laugh in all my pain; Likewise displeaseth me both life and death, And my delight is causer of this strife.

has 3 quatrains (4 lines) and a couplet (2 lines). First quatrain gives a theme, the next two quatrains expand on the theme, and the final couplet is either a summary or a reversal. Rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

like Shakespearean sonnet with a linking rhyme: abab bcbc cdcd ee.

French verse form strictly calculated to appear simple and spontaneous. Consists of 5 tercets (3 lines) and a final quatrain, rhyming aba aba aba aba aba abaa. Lines 1, 6, 12, 18 and lines 3, 9, 15, 19 are refrain. "Do Not Go Gentle" by Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night....

the unit that poetic meter is measured in - | a CAT | er PILL | ar a MONG | those MUL | berry LEAVES | | u / | u / | u u / | u / | u / | (Klm)

rhythm of poetry

accented syllable

close, critical reading of a poem; examining meter

UU/ it was MANy anaPEST -The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. (Klm)

U/ beGIN unTIL does MORE beWITCH me THAN when ART is TOO preCISE in EVery PART -The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. (Klm)

// rocks' vast weight words move slow White founts falling in the courts of the sun And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run (TDS)

/U NAthan KOLten SARah STUdy RIBBons

2 feet per line Even out Earth's rondure, flatten Eiger, blanden the Grand Canyon. Make valleys slightly higher, widen fissures to arable land, remand your terrible glaciers

3 feet per line (U/ U/ U/) I love the jocund dance, The softly breathing song,

4 feet per line BeCAUSE I COULD not STOP for DEATH

5 feet per line but SOFT what LIGHT through YONder WINdow BREAKS

6 feet per line "He had | adorned | and hid | the com | ing bulk | of death."—this line has six feet in the meter.[1] This is the fórest priméval.The múrmuring pínes and the hémlocks. (TDS)

repetition of the initial consonant sound Brave Beowulf Grappled with Grendel

repetition of vowel sounds "Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came." Carl Sandburg "Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came." - Carl Sandburg (TS)

unrhymed iambic pentameter But, woe is me, you are so sick of late, So far from cheer and from your former state, That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust, Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must" -Hamlet by William Shakespeare (TS)

a sound which is harsh or discordant an untalented band warming up before a performance would sound this way "I detest war because cause of war is always trivial." (TS)

rhythm "It is not the sunset Nor the pale green sky Shimmering through the curtain Of the silver birch, Nor the quietness; It is not the hopping Of the little birds Upon the lawn, Nor the darkness Stealing over all things That moves me..." -London by F. S. Flint (KNM)

A combination of harsh or jarring sounds, especially in Poetry when two musical notes are not in harmony. when you put people together with strongly opposing political views. "Why? That my chaff might fly; my grain lie, sheer and clear. Nay in all that toil, that coil, since (seems) I kissed the rod, Hand rather, my heart lo! lapped strength, stole joy, would laugh, cheer." -Carrion Comfort (KNM)

no rhyme or meter I was walking in the street, and suddenly it began to rain. -The fog comeson little cat feet. It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on. (Klm)

A close, critical reading of a poem, examining the work for meter the GINGham DOG and the CAlico CAT SIDE by SIDE on they TAble SAT. (TDS)

rhyme at the end of the line A sweet disorder in the DRESS Kindles in clothes a wantonNESS

A stressed syllable rhyme followed by an unstressed syllable. Example: carrot and garret, sever and never.

Rhyme that occurs within a line or passage All the BITING and FIGHTING got on my nerves. "Breaker, breaker, here comes the caper." House of Pain Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary - Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven). (JD) I see a red boat that has a red flag. / Just like my red coat and my little red pail. (JD)

Has a single stressed syllable rhyme. Example: fight and tight, stove and trove Stand still, and I will read to thee A lecture, love, in Love's philosophy. These three hours that we have spent Walking here, two shadows went Along with us, which we ourselves produced. But now the sun is just above our head, We do those shadows tread, And to brave clearness all things are reduced. John Donne - "Lecture upon the Shadow" (JD) Loveliest of trees, the cheery now Is hung with bloom along the bough. A.E. Housman (JD)

(Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different ) Does more bewitch me than when ART is too precise in every pART. Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full! (JD) As the days go by I cannot help but sigh (JD)

(the rhymes are close but not perfect(12): Come live with me and be my love and we will all the pleasures prove If love is like a bridge or maybe like a grudge, (JD) When have I last looked on The round green eyes and the long wavering bodies Of the dark leopards of the moon? All the wild witches, those most noble ladies ... (W. B. Yeats "Lines written in Dejection") (JD)

simple narrative verse which tells a story; (rhyme scheme abab, or abcb), alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter meter Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me. The carriage held but just ourselves and Immortality

a lyric poem with a silent but identifiable listener in which the speaker tells about a dramatic moment in his life, and in doing so, reveals character. "Porphyria's Lover" by Browning "Ulysses" by Tennyson

This is when the natural pause in the sense of the words comes at the end of the line "O Cursed spite! That I was ever born to set it right." Shakespeare

term used to describe a line of poetry which is not end-stopped, in which the sentence continues into the next line without any pause or punctuation mark "The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; - on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone..." Arnold "Dover Beach"

long narrative poem which gives an account of a hero important to his nation or race. The Odyssey The Iliad Paradise Lost Star Wars

subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression. WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high pil`d books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, 5 Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And feel that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! That I shall never look upon thee more, 10 Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;—then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think, Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink. --John Keats

non-dramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or narrative

A pause in a line of Poetry, usually occurring near the middle 'Sing a song of sixpence, || a pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds, || baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, || the birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish, || to set before the king?'

2 consecutive lines of poetry "The Play's the Thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king!

couplet of iambic pentmeter "In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend"

8 lines of poetry I find no peace, and all my war is done. I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice. I fly above the wind, yet can I not arise; And nought I have, and all the world I season. That loseth nor locketh holdeth me in prison And holdeth me not—yet can I scape no wise— Nor letteth me live nor die at my device, And yet of death it giveth me occasion.

4 lines of poetry My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

6 lines of poetry Without eyen I see, and without tongue I plain. I desire to perish, and yet I ask health. I love another, and thus I hate myself. I feed me in sorrow and laugh in all my pain; Likewise displeaseth me both life and death, And my delight is causer of this strife.

a unit within a larger poem "My mother's maids, when they did sew and spin, They sang sometimes a song of the field mouse, That for because their livelihood was but so thin. Would needs go seek her townish sister's house. Would needs She thought herself endured to much pain: The stormy blasts her cave so sore did souse..."

sentence structure: Katie and I ate lunch and ran. The cat is running up the tree. (TS) "Go out, I cannot." Rather than "I cannot go out" to place emphasis on the inability to leave. (JD) "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country."-John Kennedy (JD)

From Antigone. ISMENE: And what life is dear to me, bereft of thee? ANTIGONE: Ask Creon; all thy care is for him. ISMENE: Why vex me thus, when it avails thee nought? ANTIGONE: Indeed, if I mock, 'tis with pain that I mock thee. ISMENE: Tell me,-how can I serve thee, even now? ANTIGONE: Save thyself: I grudge not thy escape. ISMENE: Ah, woe is me! And shall I have no share in thy fate? ANTIGONE: Thy choice was to live; mine, to die. ISMENE: At least thy choice was not made without my protest. ANTIGONE: One world approved thy wisdom; another, mine. (TS) From Hamlet: QUEEN GERTRUDE Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. HAMLET Mother, you have my father much offended. QUEEN GERTRUDE Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. HAMLET Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue. LADY ANNE: I would I knew thy heart. GLOUCESTER: 'Tis figured in my tongue. LADY ANNE: I fear me both are false. GLOUCESTER: Then never man was true. LADY ANNE: Well, well, put up your sword. GLOUCESTER: Say, then, my peace is made. LADY ANNE: That shall you know hereafter. GLOUCESTER: But shall I live in hope? LADY ANNE: All men, I hope, live so. GLOUCESTER: Vouchsafe to wear this ring. LADY ANNE: To take is not to give. (JD) KING RICHARD Infer fair England's peace by this alliance. ELIZABETH Which she shall purchase with still-lasting war. KING RICHARD Tell her the King, that may command, entreats. ELIZABETH That, at her hands, which the King's King forbids. KING RICHARD Say she shall be a high and mighty queen. ELIZABETH To vail the title, as her mother doth. KING RICHARD Say I will love her everlastingly. ELIZABETH But how long shall that title 'ever' last? KING RICHARD Sweetly in force, until her fair life's end. ELIZABETH But how long fairly shall her sweet life last? KING RICHARD As long as heaven and nature lengthens it. ELIZABETH As long as hell and Richard likes of it. KING RICHARD Say I, her sovereign, am her subject low. ELIZABETH But she, your subject, loathes such sovereignty. KING RICHARD Be eloquent in my behalf to her. ELIZABETH An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. KING RICHARD Then plainly to her tell my loving tale. ELIZABETH Plain and not honest is too harsh a style. KING RICHARD Your reasons are too shallow and too quick. (JD)