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Analyzing Poetry: Considering Elements of Craft Wartburg EN112 UNI 620:005 by Kim Groninga Two Kinds of Poetry Free Verse Free verse is poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. (Free verse can still contain rhyme and meter.) Modern and contemporary poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries often employ free verse. Formal Verse Formal verse is poetry which adheres to the rules of a given form. Rules might indicate a rhyme scheme, a specific meter, or a required placement of repeated words. Modern and contemporary poets often bend the rules of conventional forms and have also created new poetic forms; formal verse is not dead! Diction: Word choice. Examples: “I came out lactic. Craving ashes / licking bricks” Amymarie Baldwin Why that word? What baggage does it carry? (or not carry?) Describe the overall word choice. Is it archaic? Conversational? Common? Scientific? Why? Elements of Craft: Diction “And the clouds fretted and flew, as though / there was a reason for their acting distraught.” John Ashbury Elements of Craft: Rhyme Rhyme: the matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. Full Rhyme: Cat/Hat Down/Town Slant Rhyme: Infants/Nests Down/Found Hand/World Trojan/Orange Look at paired words. Is there a relationship? Rhyme can occur at the ends of lines (called end-rhyme) or within lines (called internal rhyme). Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Examples: “Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-leads” from “Arms and the Boy” by Wilfred Owen What do the repeated sounds remind you of? What do they imply? “the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials ” Mark Strand Elements of Craft: Alliteration Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds. Examples: “How Now Brown Cow” What do the repeated sounds remind you of? What do they imply? Elements of Craft: Assonance “Snug as a gun” (