Poetry Introduction

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Intense feelings

Language's musical qualities

The shape of a poem

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It provides audience with a riddle that needs to be solved

Tells one's life story in a short form

Bursts of brief intensity, conveys the essence of a moment

A fourteen-line poem written in an iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter is considered to be five unstressed syllables each followed by a stressed one. The structure of a sonnet is very strict.

It flows freely like everyday speech. It's not typically casual or informal.

It an extensive narrative or a lengthy story.

It is formless and without constraints, usually written in a haphazard manner. It is intended for expressing long-winded ideas.

It is a poem constrained by traditional poetic rules such as rhyme schemes or a specific metrical pattern

It follow a specific pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, providing poets with more freedom in their expression.

It is poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter.

It is a poem confined by strict stanza and line length requirements.

Sonnet

Haiku

Limerick

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Haiku

Sonnet

Narrative poem

Limerick