Poetry I

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo lwoo, vwo
• 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

A.A. Milne

Sneezles

Your poems

haiku

lyric poem (song or sonnet)

shape poem

limerick

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

Alliteration: manage my motly misers

Rhyme (of course)

Write

Minimum requirements:

• 4 lines
•  one simile or metaphor
• use rhyme 
• one instance of alliteration

Ready? 

Do unit 2, 19, 28, 29, 42, 44

Homework

Study vocab 2.1, 2.2., 2.3 

Finish unit 2, 19, 28, 29, 42, 44

Study grammar present simple, present continuous and present perfect in your checkbook

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