A Poetry Handbook - Pages 35-75 Notes

The Line:

• Prose
• Printed or written with attention to the margins
• Poetry
• Printed or written with no focus on the margins, specifically the right margin.
• Verse:
• A Latin words meaning “to turn”
• Turning the line is usually more purposeful in poetry 
• Supposed to be felt by the reader
• Metric Line
• Length and Rhythm
• Metric Verse
• Each line can be broken down into feet and each on e of those feet can be turned into stresses.
• Scansion
• The process of turning a line into metric feet and The metric feet into stresses.
• Iambic foot.
• A light stress followed by a heavy stress.
• Five Iambic feet together create iambic pentameter.
• Iambic pentameter is the most widely used 
• Seen with Shakespeare’s work
• Changing even a foot in a counted line will change the tone and feeling of the poem. It also changes the beat.
• Constancy
• Reader falls into the rhythm of the poem
• Usually takes no more than two or three lines.
• Free verse still has a pattern but is harder to mathmatically mark into a rhythm.
• Rhythm in poetry doesn’t have to be so strict that it repeats exactly.
• Variation 
• Touch of difference between beats and rhythm.
• End and beginning of lines are very important.
• Conclusion 
• Every poem is different 
• Poems have basic measure
• Poems still needs to be reliables as a poem not a prose

Some Given Forms

• Poems require a design 
• Rhyme
• Meter
• Length of line
• Sounds of various letters
• Overall length of poem
• Imagery 
• Subject itself 
• Stanza
• Stanza is used to determine a ground of lines
• Syllabic Verse
• Pattern is set but the number of syllables in the first stanza and followed throughout the poem.
• Free Verse
• Still requires a design 
• Different set up cause it has no pattern that needs to be followed.
• Design 
• Free verse is a poetry style that realweases from many restraints that other styles have.
• Doesn’t have to follow metric rules
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