Introduction to Poetry

POETRY REQUIRES:
Poetry requires creativity
Poetry requires emotion
Poetry requires an artistic quality
Poetry requires logic

*Rhyme-the repetition of sounds

*Rhythm- the beat
*Dactylic *Monosyllabic
*Anapestic *Spondaic
*Trochaic
*Iambic
*Accentual
*Meter-length of a line of poetry, based on what type of rhythm is used.
*Monometer
*Dimeter
*Trimeter
*Tetrameter
*Pentameter
*Hexameter
*Heptameter
*Octameter
*Alliteration-repetition of the or more initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line. She Walks in Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.