It seems as if poetry is getting back into style. Each day more ted talks come out, more images are posted, more books are printed. It gives us a sense that poetry can just be as miraculous as it once was back then.
Types of Poetry
Free verse:
Just like it's name, we get a sense that this type of poetry is more simpler than some other might be. It doesn't have a particular rhythm, or structure. The lines might be different lengths and the rhymes might not all of the time line up.
Example:
"April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers--Read more!
Blank verse:
This type of poetry doesn't have an rhyming in it, however has a regular meter.
Example:
Five years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a soft inland murmur.—Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
That on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky… -- Read more!
Narrative:
This types of Poetry happens to tell a story just like a regular novel or short story might. They have their own characters and plot. And they are normally very lengthy in length.
Example:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
Only this and nothing more." --Read more!
Sonnet:
This type of poem has a pretty strict 14-line structure. Most examples of this are written by shakespeare and other English writers in the sixteenth century.
Example:
When I consider how my light is spent,
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present --Read More!
Elegy:
These kinds of poems have very sad tones ot them, their moods are melondochy and touched deep to the heart.
Example:
"Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,
I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,
And with forc'd fingers rude
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear
Compels me to disturb your season due;" Read more!
"Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow..." ~A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Types of Rhymes
According to the article, "Important Poetry Terms for Middle & High School English or Language Arts." There are two types of rhymes. "Internal rhyme: When two or more words in the same line of a poem rhyme, that line is said to have internal rhyme. For example, the first line of “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe reads, “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.” Dreary and weary rhyme, meaning this line of poetry has internal rhyme."
"End rhyme: This term can refer to two things: rhyming lines of poetry and rhyming words. When two or more lines of poetry end with a rhyming word, that is considered an end rhyme. Also, two words that rhyme on their last syllable, such as “showers” and “flowers,” are said to have end rhyme." End rhyme: This term can refer to two things: rhyming lines of poetry and rhyming words. When two or more lines of poetry end with a rhyming word, that is considered an end rhyme. Also, two words that rhyme on their last syllable, such as “showers” and “flowers,” are said to have end rhyme.
Be sure to check that awesome website out to find out more about other poetry terms! You can also watch the video below that shares how to properly using rhyming in poetry.
Things To Dazzle Up Your Poetry
When we are writing novels, short stores, books and other pieces of creative works we know to use five main things all through our writing. They are known as the five senses: Smell, sight, taste, touch, and hear. However, poetry's main components are different. They are, imagery, rhythm, sound and density and line. Without these things your poems wouldn't be... well, a poem...
Imagery: poetic imagery, the sensory and figurative language used in poetry. Related Topics: poetry imagery. See all related content → The object or experience that a poet is contemplating is usually perceived by that poet in a relationship to some second object or event, person, or thing.
Rhythm: rhythm, in poetry, the patterned recurrence, within a certain range of regularity, of specific language features, usually features of sound. Although difficult to define, rhythm is readily discriminated by the ear and the mind, having as it does a physiological basis.
(Definitions found at https://www.britannica.com/)
Check out this site, "What is the important of elements of poetry" to find more about these components!
Sources:
Eliot’s Poetry Quotes: Regeneration. (n.d.). SparkNotes. Retrieved March 15, 2022, from https://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/eliot/quotes/theme/regeneration/#:~:text=April%20is%20the%20cruellest%20month
YourDictionary. (2017, March 16). Examples of Free Verse Poems. YourDictionary. https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-free-verse-poems.html
Edgar Allan Poe. (2019). The Raven. Poetry Foundation. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven
When I Consider How My Light is Spent (On His Blindness) Lines 1-8 | Shmoop. (n.d.). Www.shmoop.com. Retrieved March 15, 2022, from https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/poetry/consider-light-spent-blindness/summary/lines-1-8#:~:text=When%20I%20consider%20how%20my%20light%20is%20spent%2C
Foundation, P. (2020, September 30). Lycidas by John Milton. Poetry Foundation. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44733/lycidas
Important Poetry Terms for Middle & High School English or Language Arts. (2010, February 28). Www.brighthubeducation.com. https://www.brighthubeducation.com/english-homework-help/65313-poetry-terms-made-easy/
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