Poetry II

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

Welcome to Poetry II

Road map

English literature - poems

Focus

You can define what makes a poem a poem 

You can relate what 

• a rhyme scheme
• meter
• literary tools in general 

are

Robert Burns

My love is like a red, red rose

A Red, Red Rose

https://www.pbs.org/video/a-red-red-rose-9kcoe3/

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Poem

'a piece of writing in which the words are arranged in separate lines, often ending in rhyme, and are chosen for their sound and for the images and ideas they suggest

Cambridge dictionary

Meter

the rhythm of a poem

a sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables 

Literary tools

Simile: compare with 'as' or 'like'

Metaphor: compare with 'to be' or similar word, not 'as' or 'like'

Alliteration: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Rhyme

Write

Minimum requirements:

8 lines

• one topic: love 
•  one simile or metaphor
• use rhyme 
• one instance of alliteration

Ready? 

Read your book

Strands

https://www.nytimes.com/games/strands

Wordle

https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

Squaredle

https://squaredle.app/

Focus

You can define what makes a poem a poem 

You can relate what 

• a rhyme scheme
• meter
• literary tools in general 

are

Rhyme scheme

Rhyme = 

repetition of the last sounds  of a word.

Day - May                    A

temperate - date          B