Elements of Poetry Verlost (Saved) : Critiquing Time!
Elements of Poetry Verlost (Saved) : Critiquing Time!
Elements
Verlost (Saved)
of Poetry
Dimeter, Quatrain,
Structure Traditional form
The poem “Verlost” is with rhyme and with meter.
Iambic
This is an example of iambic dimeter, which has two metrical feet, shown
in bold, in each line.
Sound end rhyme
Devices The following are the first two rhyming lines;
Voices keep on echoing inside my head
They want me dead
The first two lines ends with ead
Essential
Narrative dialogue, sad tone, accepting your flaws
Elements
Narrative Poem
Cristina Kyla C. Villagen poem “Verlost” is example of Narrative poem.
Narrative Poem is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices
Poetic Form of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in
metered verse.
Alliteration
Haven’t looked at the mirror for years
Figures of For I’ve been swallowed by my fears
Speech Of seeing cheeks stained by tears
And body that completely differs from my peers’
Tactile Imagery
When my world was filled with cold breeze
Imagery One warm embrace took away every trace of melancholy
What’s More
Learning Task 3: Feel and Tell!
Directions: Read the literary pieces with understanding. Identify the Theme and
Tone of the following excerpts. Use the table below and write your answers on
your answer sheet.
Literary Kind of
Theme Tone Verse Type
Piece Stanza
1 The The Phoenix and This poem is an elegy The poem is a 67- The poem uses
Phoenix and the Turtle-Dove love in the sense that it is line poem made seven-syllable
the Turtle- each other a mourning poem on up of 13 quatrains lines with four
Dove completely and the death of the (stanzas of four accents. There is
By William truly, but times are famous Phoenix and lines) and five stress on the 1st,
Shakespeare changing, and their his faithful lover tercets. It does not 3rd, 5th, and 7th
love is the last real Turtle dove. In the follow a common syllables. This
true love. When poem, the birds poetic form like a meter is called
they die, true love become one in love sonnet. In the trochaic
dies with them, and and die together in a quatrains the tetrameter.
the poem fire. When the poem rhyme scheme is
symbolizes the begins, many birds ABBC. In the
death of idealized are called for the tercets (triplet) it is
true love in society funeral procession of AAA. The poem
at the time. the dead loving birds. uses seven-
syllable lines with
four accents.
Romeo and Love is naturally Romeo and Juliet are The first 12 lines A sonnet is a 14-
Juliet by the play's dominant sympathetic to the of the poem line poem written
William and most important plight of the young contain three sets in iambic
Shakespeare theme. The moral lovers. The equal of rhyming pentameter.
behind the story in weight the play gives quatrains and the Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is to sexual desire and last two lines are are written
to let old prejudices everlasting love rhyming couplets. mostly in blank
go and don't let suggests a realistic, The rhyme scheme verse.
emotions control benevolent attitude for a sonnet is Shakespeare
one's life. In Romeo towards their story. ABAB CDCD EFEF preferred to use
and Juliet, love is a GG. The prologues verse when he
violent, ecstatic, to the first and was tackling
overpowering force second acts of serious themes,
that supersedes all “Romeo and like the themes
other values, Juliet” are in Romeo and
loyalties, and sonnets. Juliet of doomed
emotions love, feuding,
suicide, and
death.
3 Sonnet 12 In Sonnet 12 In Sonnet 12, the 'Sonnet 12' by The poem follows
By William Shakespeare speaks poet’s tone is William a consistent
Shakespeare about seasons philosophical. In the Shakespeare is a rhyme scheme
changing and first two quatrains, traditional that conforms to
objects dying all as he invokes images fourteen-line poem the pattern of
time passes without from the natural sonnet. The poem ABAB CDCD
pause. Event after world to illustrate the is structured in EFEF GG and it
event happens in a effects of time. In the the form which is written in
cycle with birth third quatrain, the has come to be iambic
being the start and poet adopts a matter- synonymous with pentameter. This
death being the end of-fact tone about the the poet's name. It means that each
and everyone is a young man’s is made up of line contains five
part of it. mortality. The poem three quatrains, or sets of two beats,
ends in a slightly sets of four lines, known as
hopeful tone. and one metrical feet. The
concluding first is
couplet, or set of unstressed and
two rhyming lines. the second
stressed.