Agenda:
Finish Poetry Stations. Finalize discussion on To a Poor Old Women by William Carlos Williams.
Homework:
1. There will be a quiz on Scansion on Tuesday based on the video in the previous post below. You can attempt a practice exam on the online quiz by going to the link HERE.
2. Find a poetry book to keep in your back pocket and read during this very short unit. Post a poem you like from the selection below in the comments. Identify the rhyme scheme, rhythm and meter if there is one, and comment on the form of the poem.
3. Attempt to write a thesis based on the prompt in the previous post and three topic sentences. Have a hard copy ready to add to your notes regarding To a Poor Old Women by William Carlos Williams.
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ReplyDeleteBy Alexander Sergio Pushkin
ReplyDeleteI loved you once...
i LOVED/ you ONCE/: perHAPS/ that LOVE/ has YET
To DIE/ down THOROUGHLY/ with IN/ my SOUL;
But LET/ it NOT/ disMAY/ you ANY/ lonGER;
i HAVE/ no WISH/ to CAUSE/ you ANY/ SOrrow./
IampTetrameter
Iambic Pentameter - Romeo Juliet
ReplyDeleteBut, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
trochaic tetrameter (the fourth feet is incomplete)
ReplyDeleteTyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Iambic Tetrameter
ReplyDeleteHope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
- Emily Dickinson
As I Grew Older - Langston Hughes
ReplyDelete(Iambic Tetrameter)
It was a long time ago.
I have almost forgotten my dream.
But it was there then,
In front of me,
Bright like a sun-
My dream.
And then the wall rose,
Rose slowly,
Slowly,
Between me and my dream.
Rose until it touched the sky-
The wall.
Shadow.
I am black.
I lie down in the shadow.
No longer the light of my dream before me,
Above me.
Only the thick wall.
Only the shadow.
My hands!
My dark hands!
Break through the wall!
Find my dream!
Help me to shatter this darkness,
To smash this night,
To break this shadow
Into a thousand lights of sun,
Into a thousand whirling dreams
Of sun!
American Heartbreak, by Langston Hughes
ReplyDeleteI am the American heartbreak -
The rock on which Freedom
Stumped its toe-
The great mistake
That Jamestown made
Long ago.
The rhyme scheme is : A, B, C, A, D, C
There is no clear meter, as the lines have inconsistent meters. However, the overarching rhythm is Iambic, with the exceptions of the third and sixth line, which is Trochaic.
If broken up line for line, the meter and rhythm is:
Iambic Tetrameter (+ one unemphasized syllable)
Iambic Trimeter
Trochaic Monometer (+ one emphasized syllable)
Iambic Dimeter
Iambic Dimeter
Trochaic Monometer (+ one emphasized syllable)
A Bird Came Down the Walk by Emily Dickinson
ReplyDeleteA Bird came down the Walk
He did not know I saw
He bit an Angleworm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw,
And then he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all around-
They looked like frightened Beads, I thought-
He stirred his Velvet Head
Like one in danger; Cautious
I offered him a Crumb
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home-
Than Oars divide the Ocean
Too silver for a seam-
Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon
Leap, plashless as they swim
Iambic Trimeter (For every third line of each stanza, iambic tetrameter)
Form:
Five 4-Line stanza's
Rhyme:
A
B
C
B
A
B
C
B
then shifts to a form that I am not sure about. Probably
A
B
C
D
The Red Wheelbarrow
ReplyDeleteso much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
-William Carlos Williams
No Rhyme Scheme, does not rhyme
Free Verse
Emphasis/pause on the words upon, barrow, water, and chicken.
BRIAN OH
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
ReplyDeleteBY ROBERT FROST
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
(Iambic Tetrameter)
rhyme scheme: AABA CCDC EEFE GGGG
The Road Not Taken- Robert Frost
ReplyDeleteTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
[iambic tetrameter, but some anapests]
rhyme scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHGGH
Acquainted with the Night
ReplyDeleteBy Robert Frost
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
Iambic Pentameter
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shell Silerstein
ReplyDeleteThere is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
rhyme scheme: AABBBC DAEEEA EEEA
Includes anapestic tetrameter and iambic tetrameter
There Will Come Soft Rains
ReplyDeleteBy: Sara Teasdale
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wil plum-trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling theirs whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not on would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
rhyme scheme: AA, BB, CC, DD, EE, FF
Iambic tetrameter
I'm nobody! Who are you? - Emily Dickinson
ReplyDeleteI'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd advertise -- you know!
How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
rhyme scheme: AA,BB, CDCD
Iambic Trimeter
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ReplyDeleteStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
ReplyDeleteBY ROBERT FROST
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Rhyme scheme: AABA BBCB CCDC DDDD
Iambic tetrameter
A Late Walk by Robert Frost
ReplyDeleteWhen I go up through the mowing field,
The headless aftermath,
Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew,
Half closes the garden path.
And when I come to the garden ground,
The whir of sober birds
Up from the tangle of withered weeds
Is sadder than any words
A tree beside the wall stands bare,
But a leaf that lingered brown,
Disturbed, I doubt not, by my thought,
Comes softly rattling down.
I end not far from my going forth
By picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
To carry again to you.
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK
Iambic tetrameter and dactylic tetrameter
A Dream Within A Dream
ReplyDeleteBy Edger Allen Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
(Anapestic diameter)
Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCCDDBB EEFFGGGGGHHBB
Simpler Days by Michael Lewis
ReplyDeleteThe windows in my mind have panes of green.
Through each, do I admire a different view.
In one I found a most in inspiring scene,
One day as I was casually peering through.
Beyond the grass and Rosa Moyesii,
With fairest skin and blazing copper hair,
She looked inside my pane and into me,
With memories from smiling eyes so rare,
As though what she found there in my gaze,
Reminded her of home, and simpler days.
Iambic Pentameter
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB
A Strange Wild Song
ReplyDeleteby Lewis Carroll
He thought he saw an Elephant
That practised on a fife:
He looked again, and found it was
A letter from his wife.
"At length I realize," he said,
"The bitterness of life!"
He thought he saw a Buffalo
Upon the chimney-piece:
He looked again, and found it was
His Sister's Husband's Niece.
"Unless you leave this house," he said,
"I'll send for the police!"
he thought he saw a Rattlesnake
That questioned him in Greek:
He looked again, and found it was
The Middle of Next Week.
"The one thing I regret," he said,
"Is that it cannot speak!"
He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk
Descending from the bus:
He looked again, and found it was
A Hippopotamus.
"If this should stay to dine," he said,
"There won't be much for us!"
He thought he saw a Kangaroo
That worked a Coffee-mill:
He looked again, and found it was
A Vegetable-Pill.
"Were I to swallow this," he said,
"I should be very ill!"
He thought he saw a Coach-and-Four
That stood beside his bed:
He looked again, and found it was
A Bear without a Head.
"Poor thing," he said, "poor silly thing!
It's waiting to be fed!"
Iambic tetrameter
and
Iambic trimeter
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF IJKJLJ MNONPN QRSRTR UVWVXV
Whatif by Shel Silverstein
ReplyDeleteLast night, while I lay thinking here,
some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
and pranced and partied all night long
and sang their same old Whatif song:
Whatif I'm dumb in school?
Whatif they've closed the swimming pool?
Whatif I get beat up?
Whatif there's poison in my cup?
Whatif I start to cry?
Whatif I get sick and die?
Whatif I flunk that test?
Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
Whatif nobody likes me?
Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?
Whatif I don't grow talle?
Whatif my head starts getting smaller?
Whatif the fish won't bite?
Whatif the wind tears up my kite?
Whatif they start a war?
Whatif my parents get divorced?
Whatif the bus is late?
Whatif my teeth don't grow in straight?
Whatif I tear my pants?
Whatif I never learn to dance?
Everything seems well, and then
the nighttime Whatifs strike again!
Rhyme Scheme: Pairs of rhyming endwords i.e. AABBCCDDEEFF...
Iambic Triameter/Tetrameter, It varies in length throughout mainly between Triameter and Tetrameter.
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
ReplyDeleteIt is an iambic tetrameter poem.
The rhyme scheme is AABB.
Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dale and field,
And all the craggy mountains yield.
There will we sit upon the rocks
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
There will I make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull,
Fair linèd slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold.
A belt of straw and ivy buds
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my Love.
Thy silver dishes for thy meat
As precious as the gods do eat,
Shall on an ivory table be
Prepared each day for thee and me.
The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my Love.
Peppermint Pigs
ReplyDeleteBy: Giorgio Veneto
They come and go uncalled and BOLD
beseech in souls folklore REDEMPTION
demand and hide in pig DECEPTION,
conglomerate a sinful MOLD.
Like flying pigs odd worlds in CLOUDS,
deceived dream songs called for and POSED,
called for and posed in heavens CLOSED,
with other lives assessed in SHROUDS.
Abstemious were our lives in CAVES,
stars' overreach, offered pigs' LIFTS,
peppermint's scent in festal DRINKS,
with purgatory beat death's RAVES.
Verse cadence words will fit to SHARE,
will fit to share the pulse we SEND,
our heart beats abstractly DEFEND,
peppermint pigs that were ENSNARED.
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG
Iambic Pentameter
Interior
ReplyDeleteDorothy Parker
Her mind lives in a quiet room,
A narrow room, and tall,
With pretty lamps to quench the gloom
And mottoes on the wall.
There all the things are waxen neat
And set in decorous lines;
And there are posies, round and sweet,
And little, straightened vines.
Her mind lives tidily, apart
From cold and noise and pain,
And bolts the door against her heart,
Out wailing in the rain.
Rhyming Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF
Iambic Tetrameter and Iambic Trimeter
Put Something In
ReplyDelete~Shel Silverstein
Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-gumble song,
Whistle through your comb.
Do a loony-goony dance
‘Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain’t been there before.
Rhyme Scheme: aabcbcde
Begins off as a Trochee hexameter, later becomes heptameter a pentameter and then some odd dactylic heptameter, lastly with iambic hexameter
I chose the poem "Dreams" by Langston Hughes
ReplyDeleteHold fast to dreams (iambic dimeter)
For if dreams die (iambic dimeter)
Life is a broken-winged bird (incomplete dactylic trimeter)
That cannot fly. (iambic dimeter)
Hold fast to dreams (iambic dimeter)
For when dreams go (iambic dimeter)
Life is a barren field (dactylic dimeter)
Frozen with snow. (incomplete dactylic dimeter)
The rhyme scheme is ABCB ADED
I think many of the lines of the poem are of different meter, as stated next to the line. It was difficult to determine for some, but I tried my best. Most of the lines of this poem have 4 syllables, except the 3rd line of each verse, which have 7 (1st verse) /6 (2nd verse) syllables.
This Is Just To Say
ReplyDeleteBy William Carlos Willimas
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
The poem is a free verse poem, and therefore there does not have a specific rhyme scheme, rhythm, or meter. However I do believe that the poet intentionally made this poem in this specific form. The three stanzas are separated into three little squares, like three little, brief notes that he left to someone on the way out.
William Carlos Williams*
DeleteMoney by Narayan Chandra Samal
ReplyDeleteMoney money money (Iambic Trimeter)
Brighter than sunshine, sweeter than honey. (Possibly Dactylic Hexameter)
Money money money (Iambic Trimeter)
It brings luxury & comfort it makes life funny. (Iambic Octometer)
Money money money (Iambic Trimeter)
People come to you if you have lot of money. (Iambic Pentameter)
Money money money (Iambic Trimeter)
People leave you alone if you don’t have money. (Iambic Hexameter)
Money money money (Iambic Trimeter)
Who uses it carefully they are very brainy. (Iambic Hexameter)
Money money money (Iambic Trimeter)
Whatever it may be, I love only man not money. (Iambic Hectameter)
This poem's rhyme scheme is AAAAAAAAAAAA.
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
ReplyDeleteThere is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
The poem's rhyme scheme is [ABCCCB DAFFFA FFFA].
The meter varies and is very unclear in many instances however I have written below the lines that i thought did have a distinct meter.
And there the grass grows soft and white, (iambic tetrameter)
And there the sun burns crimson bright,(iambic tetrameter)
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,(anapestic tetrameter)
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know (anapestic tetrameter)
However it is clear that there were words even in those lines with unclear meters, that the author clearly wanted to emphasize and deemphasize. For example:
Deleteand beFORE the STREET beGINS,
and the DARK street WINDS and BENDS
These lines are very close to being an iambic trimeter or tetrameter. It is just that the line has an anapestic rhythm on the first foot.
THE DAD WHO LIVED TO REGRET BEING MEAN TO HIS KID (From Yukon Ho!, page 101 - Calvin and Hobbes :) )
ReplyDeleteNumbers are syllable count, the letters are for rhyme scheme.
Iambic... Penta - Hexa - Hepta - Nonameter (it has all 3 of these specific meters in different lines)
Barney’s dad was really bad, 7a
So Barney hatched a plan. 6a
When his dad said “Eat your peas!” 7b
Barney shouted “No!” and ran. 7a
Barney tricked his mean ol’ dad 7a
And locked him in the cellar, 7c
His mom never found out where he’d gone 9d
Cause Barney didn’t tell her 7c
There his dad spent his life, 6e
Eating mice and gruel. 5f
With every bite for fifty years 8g
He was sorry he’d been cruel.7 f
THE END
Although this poem wasn't a part of a poem collection, Bill Watterson has done plenty of poems in his comic series, Calvin and Hobbes. This is a very peculiar yet funny poem. Its format is a bit confusing at first, but when read properly, the rhythm fits. However, it is hard to identify it with a specific meter, rhyming pattern, or scheme.
The Tyger - William Blake
ReplyDeleteTyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Rhyme scheme is AABB
4 Trochee - irregular