EXAMPLES OF POETRY TERMS EXAMPLE 1 Never did

EXAMPLES OF POETRY TERMS

EXAMPLE #1 Never did a love seem so sweet As ours when we first met

EXAMPLE #1 Enjambment

EXAMPLE #2 Tall Tom told tiny Tina to take turns today.

EXAMPLE #2 Alliteration

EXAMPLE #3 I sit and play as life goes by Questioning fate and asking why Why do some draw a useless card Whilst others lives are so easy Against their ace we draw a three

EXAMPLE #3 Sestet

EXAMPLE #4 There is no gain in pain but again no pain no gain!

EXAMPLE #4 Consonance

EXAMPLE #5 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

EXAMPLE #5 rhyme

EXAMPLE #6 I stroll along a fragrant country lane With honeysuckle perfume on the air - And feathered crooner's warble to revere - Then cross a golden sea of flowing grain In empathy - it seems to sense my pain Of knowing all was done with my affair - Her empty meaning now the solitaire She cast away - betrothment all in vain.

EXAMPLE #6 octet

EXAMPLE #7

EXAMPLE #7 Rhyme scheme

EXAMPLE #8 "Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese"

EXAMPLE #8 assonance

EXAMPLE #9 A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine

EXAMPLE #9 imagery

EXAMPLE #10 I tire of writing poems and rhyme I think I need vacation time

EXAMPLE #10 couplet

EXAMPLE #11 That time of year thou mayst in me behold (da DUM da Dum da DUM)

EXAMPLE #11 Meter (imambic pentameter to be exact)