Rhythm

Rhythm: movement or pattern of a beat in a poem
Ex:

Music Of My Life

© Kacey Storm

The music takes my soul
Takes it through the wind, and around the autumn trees
As the earth turns slowly
Each song, makes me wonder what really goes on while I'm asleep.
As a disco ball shines through my dreams.
I wish I was awake, as the music plays.
And wished instead of school, I'd get to party and dance all day.
As one song makes you move, and happy
The other makes you cry, and sappy.
Each song with its own act,
Life reacts back.
As each tune, makes you
the way you are
That's why I'm kind of bizarre.
It's hard to believe your song,
is more than just a song
Or a bell is more than a bell.
And a voice, could be as bad as hell
You could lose your soul
Regain it again, each feeling fills you full
As each tune tells you what to do.
Nothing is better than the feeling of the music's 'tude.

The significance of rhythm in a poem is that it makes the words flow with an ease of speaking. Without rhythm in a poem there wouldn't be that natural flow of speaking that we usually speak with. If you took out rhythm in poetry you wouldn't be able to make a poem that people would understand easily because rhythm helps people decode the poets message.

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onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia: words in poetry that sounds the same as it being said.
Ex:

Mom & Dad Are Home

Slam! Slam!
Go the car doors.
Jangle! Jangle!
Go the house keys.
Jiggle! Jiggle!
Go the keys in the door.
Squeak!
Goes the front door!
Thump! Thump!
That is me running down the stairs.
Guess what?
Mom and Dad are home!!
Onomatopoeia is important in poems because you can give words the same sound as the action. Also, adding creative words that sound the same as they are said really gets you thinking about about what the poem is trying to say.

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Personifaction

Personifaction: giving a person that isn't a human a human's features.

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The signifigance of personifaction in poetry is important because you are describing a non-human a regular human's features which makes reading poetry very interesting and creative. Without personification animals or plants or objects wouldn't be able to talk like humans or act like humans. Also, it makes reading poetry very fun and you are actually motivated to read the poem.

Ex:

Dinnertime Chorus

The teapot sang as the water boiled
The ice cubes cackled in their glass
the teacups chattered to one another.
While the chairs were passing gas
The gravy gurgled merrily
As the oil danced in a pan.
Oh my dinnertime chorus
What a lovely, lovely clan!

Imagery

Imagery: words in a poem that uses the five senses connecting you to tactile(touching), auditory(hearing), olfactory(smelling), visual(sight), gustatory(taste), organic(anger), and kinestetic(sensing something).

Ex:

Smell

Oh strong-ridged and deeply hollowed
nose of mine! what will you not be smelling?
What tactless asses we are, you and I, boney nose,
always indiscriminate, always unashamed,
and now it is the souring flowers of the bedreggled
poplars: a festering pulp on the wet earth
beneath them. With what deep thirst
we quicken our desires
to that rank odor of a passing springtime!
Can you not be decent? Can you not reserve your ardors
for something less unlovely? What girl will care
for us, do you think, if we continue in these ways?
Must you taste everything? Must you know everything?
Must you have a part in everything?

William Carlos Williams

 

Imagery is important in poetry because you can actually think you are in that situation. Also, without imagery reading poetry would be dull and you wouldn't be able to describe things with creative language. Without imagery poetry wouldn't be known as creative writing because there wouldn't be anything creative about it.

 

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Simile

Simile: a sentence in a poem that compares an object with another object using like or as.

Ex: My bright yellow shoes are as bright as the sun.

Simile's are important beacuse you can describe an object through figurative language in a more creative way. Without simile's your poetry and writing would be completely boring and you wouldn't be able to describe two objects through a creative way.

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Repetition

Repetition: repeating the same line or phrase over and over again in a poem

Ex:I'm nobody! Who are You?
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there's a pair of us-don't tell!
They'd banish us you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
how public, like a frog.
To tell your name livelong day
To an admiring bog!

Repetition in poetry is important because every time the poet repeats the same line again the poet is trying to send a message that the repeating line is the message of the poem. Also, this type of poem can actually help people understand the message better beacsue it keeps on repating the same line.

Ex:Rain

The rain is falling all around
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1894

Tone

Tone: is the mood or the speakers way of speaking in a poem

Ex:

Crazy

I made you crazy
I drove a man crazy
and yet I dont know how I made him crazy
it wasnt fair for him to be crazy
Im sorry for making you crazy
I wish I could take your place and I be crazy
tell me a way show me a way and make me crazy
my heart hurts cause I made my friend crazy
Please change I dont want you to be crazy
Someone help him, help him, he's crazy
take away his pain that made him crazy
I dont like how I made him crazy
I didnt do it on purpose, I didnt even know I was making him crazy
I wish I could take it all back and he leave me crazy

Stay out of my life

 

The tone of poems are important because it is the way the speaker wanted the poem to said. Also, if you took out the tone of a poem it would sound dull and boring. Tones are important because it is the mood of the poem which can help the reader understand the poem through his or her way.

 

Ex:

Graduation Day

Graduation Day
sweat and mothballs
grass so green

graduation
where green banners wave
grass grows long

graduation night
the owl printed on a balloon
seems the wisest

Wade Blade