CREATIVE WRITING

Elements of Poetry
 GUESS WHAT?
GROUP WORK

Direction: Find the words inside the box

that corresponds to the definition in
each item.
E U A T U E F D M

T F R C L I M B R 1. A group of lines that form the basic metrical unit in a poem.

S T A N Z A N E H 2. It refers to the quality of the persona’s voice that expresses the

speaker’s feelings or thoughts towards the person or thing
Q O T S W Z G X Y
addressed in the poem.
E N E T H E M E M 3. It is the feeling displayed by
V E T E U G P O E
the author toward the subject of the poem.

K A M O O D D R P
4. It is the universal idea or concept that threads through an entire
story.
L I B M E O P O K
5. It is the repetition of the same or similar sounds that occurs in two
l L M E R C K Y G or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems.
Directions: Read the statements in each item. Decide whether
you agree or disagree to the given statements. Then, show a
finger heart if you agree with the statement and burger hand if you
don’t.
1. The language of poetry is compressed, magical and musical.
2. Poem is the process of creating literary piece that uses effective words
and language to evoke a writer’s feelings and thoughts.
3. A poem may or may not have a story but
definitely, it has a structured method of writing and literary
elements that makes it more substantial.
4. The theme and moral are just the same.
5. Poems are typically written in the form of stanza.
6. The tone is crucial in creating an atmosphere and
suspense in your poem.
7. The mood evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers with
words and descriptions as it creates an emotional setting to the reader.
8. A rhyme scheme is usually referred to by using letters
of the alphabet to indicate which lines rhyme.
9. Every piece of description that you write needs
to produce an emotional response to your readers.
10. Jose Garcia Villa’s POEM 10 enumerated the
characteristics of a good poem.
Elements of
Poetry
After going through this lesson, you are expected to:
1. identify the elements of poetry;
2. appreciate the message of the poem; and
3. compose a poem depicting the elements of poetry.
 Poem 10 by Jose Garcia Villa

First, a poem must be magical,

Then musical as a seagull.
It must be a brightness moving,
And hold secret a bird’s flowering.
It must be slender as a bell,
And it must hold fire as well.
 It must have the wisdom of bows,
And it must kneel as a rose.
It must be able to hear,
The luminance of dove and dear.
It must be able to hide,
What it seeks like a bride.
And over all I would like to hover,
God’s smiling from the poem’s cover.
ELEMENTS OF POETRY
1. Form(Structure of Poetry) - is the shape of the poem.

Poems can be easily identified by its form or how it looks on a page. They
are usually written in a stanza.

As Collins (2019) stated, “a stanza is a grouping of related lines of the

same topic or thought and can be subdivided into the number of lines it
contains”.
 •Poetic Line
A line is a subdivision of a poem, specifically a group of words
arranged into a row that ends for a reason other than the right-hand
margin. The length of lines and how lines end must be considered in
establishing the structure of the poem.
Creating lines in poetry is utterly different from the lines you write
in other
genre since line must be carefully structured
 •Stanza
is a division of lines in a poem.
TYPES OF STANZA
Monostich a one-line stanza. Monostich can also be an entire poem.
Couplet a stanza with two lines that rhyme.
Tercet a stanza with three lines that either all rhyme or the first and the third line rhyme—which is called an ABA rhyming pattern.
A poem made up of tercets and concludes with a couplet is called a terza rima.

Quatrain Quintain a stanza with four lines with the second- and fourth-lines
Sestet rhyming.
a stanza with five lines.
Septet a stanza with six lines.
Octave

a stanza with seven lines. This is sometimes called a rhyme royal.

Isometric stanza a stanza with eight lines written in iambic pentameter, or ten syllable beats per line. The more lines a stanza has the more
Heterometric
varieties of rhyme and meter patterns.
stanza Isometric stanzas have the same syllabic beats, or the same meter, in every line.
Spenserian
stanza a stanza in which every line is a different length.
Ballad stanza
named
eight inafter Edward
iambic Spenser’s
pentameter and unique stanza
a final line structure
in iambic in his poem The Faerie Queene. A Spenserian stanza has nine line,
hexameter.
often used in folk songs, a ballad stanza is a rhyming quatrain with four emphasized beats (eight syllables) in the first
and third lines, and three emphasized beats (six syllables) in the second and fourth lines.
 ELEMENTS OF POETRY
2. Rhyme Scheme
• We have always been able to identify poems with the sounds of words which we usually hear at the end of the
lines. This is the rhyme scheme.

According to Collins (2019), “rhyme scheme is the pattern of sounds that repeats at the
end of a line or stanza. Rhyme schemes can change line by line, stanza by stanza, or
can continue throughout a poem” and “rhyme scheme patterns are formatted in
different ways.
The patterns are encoded by letters of the alphabet.
Lines designated with the same letter rhyme with each other.
For example, the rhyme scheme ABAB
means the first and third lines of a stanza, or the “A”s, rhyme with each other, and the
second line rhymes with the fourth line, or the “B”s rhyme together”.
10 Different Rhyme Schemes
Rhyming poems do not have to follow a particular pattern. Any number of
new rhymes can be added to a poem to create ongoing patterns. Some
common rhyme schemes include:

•Alternate
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rhyme at the
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ABAB
stanzas.for each stanza. This rhyme scheme is used for poems with four-line

•Ballade. A lyrichave
typically poem that eight-line
three, follows the rhymeand
stanzas scheme ABABBCBC.
conclude Ballades
with a four-line stanza. The
last line of each stanza is the same, which is called a refrain.
•Coupled rhyme. A coupled rhyme is a two-line stanza that rhymes following
the rhyme scheme AA BB CC, or a similar dual rhyming scheme. The rhymes
themselves are referred to as rhyming couplets.

•Monorhyme.
the same rhyme.In a monorhyme, all the lines in a stanza or entire poem end with

•Enclosed rhyme.
rhyme with each The
otherfirst and
in an fourth lines
enclosed rhymeandscheme.
the second- and third-lines
The pattern is ABBA, in
which A encloses the B.

•Simple four-line
throughout rhyme.
the entire poem.These poems follow a rhyme scheme of ABCB
•Triplet. A triplet is a set of three lines in a stanza—called a tercet—
that share the same end rhyme.

•Terza Rima. An Italian form of poetry that consists of tercets, a terza

rima follows a chain rhyme in which the second line of each stanza
rhymes with the first and last line of the subsequent stanza. It ends
with a couplet rhyming with the middle line of the penultimate stanza.
The pattern is ABA BCB CDC DED EE.
•Limerick. A limerick is a five-line poem with the
rhyme scheme AABBA.

•Villanelle. A type of poem with five three-line

stanzas that follow a rhyme scheme of ABA. The
villanelle concludes with a four-line stanza with
the pattern ABAA.
3. Meter

• To understand Rhythm and Meter, we first need to understand

meter and feet. Stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to
certain syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence.
In English, stressed syllables are louder than unstressed syllable. They
are also longer and have a higher pitch.
3. Meter
•A foot or metrical foot is a single unit of measurement that is repeated within a
line of poetry.

•Metrical feet are made

•A foot up of
or metrical footSTRESSED and Unstressed
is a single unit of measurement that syllables. All the
is repeated within a line of poetry.
metrical feet that are used in English poetry and verse have exactly one STRESSED
syllable and one or two Unstressed syllables.
Metrical feet are the structured building blocks that make up meter.
Look at the diagram below to facilitate understanding of the idea.
3. Meter
Look at the diagram below to facilitate understanding of the idea.

In studying poetry and determining meter, the following symbols are used:

U for unstressed syllables (light, weak ,quiet syllable)

3. Meter

Each pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables creates a unit called foot.

In the example above, there are five feet. The pattern could be stressed and
unstressed; unstressed and stressed
 Kinds of Feet Meaning Example
1. Iamb A foot with two syllables; an unstressed followed by (as in reduce or shall I)
stressed syllables
2. Trochee A foot with two syllables; stressed followed by (as in menu, mermaid).
unstressed syllables
3. Spondee A foot with two syllables, both stressed (as in bird sing)
4. Anapest A foot with three (as in overcome)
syllables, two unstressed, one stressed syllable

5. Dactyl A foot with three (as in capital, family)

syllables, one stressed followed by two
unstressed syllables

6. Amphibrach A foot with three (as in archaic, angelic)

syllables, one unstressed, followed by one stressed
and one unstressed syllable

7. Cretic A foot with three (as in trampoline)

syllables, one stressed, followed
by an unstressed, and a stressed
syllable
Kinds of Meter
•
3. Meter

• To understand Rhythm and Meter, we first need to understand

meter and feet. Stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to
certain syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence.
In English, stressed syllables are louder than unstressed syllable. They
are also longer and have a higher pitch.
ELEMENTS OF
POETRY
4.• Rhythm
When there is a pattern of sound created, that is, the pattern of
stressed and unstressed syllables, we call it rhythm. Meter
therefore is the measurement of these stressed and unstressed
syllables and the pattern of the sounds is rhythm which is the
natural flow of words in a line.
• It is the meaningful arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllable
in a line of poetry. Now, going back to the above-mentioned lines,
be attentive to the rhythmic flow as you read them.
1. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

ba BUM ba BUM ba BUM ba BUM ba BUM

2. Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
BUM ba BUM ba BUM ba BUM
3. I think that I shall never see

ba BUM ba BUM ba BUM ba BUM

4.Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

ba ba BUM ba ba BUM ba ba BUM ba ba BUM

5. Whose woods these are I think I know

ba BUM ba BUM ba BUM ba BUM
Types of Rhythmic patterns
1. Iambic –two syllables, one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable
2. Trochaic - two syllables, one stressed syllable and one unstressed syllable
3. Spondaic- two syllables both stressed
4. Anapestic -three syllables, two unstressed followed by one stressed syllable
5. Dactylic- three syllables, two stressed and one unstressed
6. Amphibrachic - three syllables, one unstressed, followed by one stressed and
one unstressed
ELEMENTS OF POETRY
5. Mood
Mood is crucial in creating an atmosphere and suspense
in your poem. The mood of the poem evokes certain feelings
or vibes in readers using words and descriptions as it creates
an emotional setting to the reader.
 ELEMENTS OF POETRY
6. Tone
• The poet’s attitude toward the poem’s speaker, reader, and subject matter, as
• interpreted by the reader. Often described as a “mood” that pervades the
experienceof reading the poem, it is created by the poem’s vocabulary,
metrical regularity or irregularity, syntax, use of figurative language, and
• rhyme.
• It is conveyed through the authors’ use of words in the poem. It can be formal,
informal, serious, comic or any other attitude.
Keywords examples: happy, hopeful, sad, friendly, humorous
What makes mood and tone different from each other?

TONE is the author’s attitude expressed through the word

they use.
MOOD pertains to the feeling that the reader gets from
reading.
ELEMENTS OF POETRY
7. Theme
The theme in a story is its underlying message, or
'big idea. ' In other words, what critical belief
about life is the author trying to convey in the
writing of a novel, play, short story or poem? This
belief, or idea, transcends cultural barriers. It is
usually universal in nature.
 What makes the theme different from moral?

• THEME is the universal idea reflected in the literary piece.

• MORAL is the lesson that teaches the readers the concept of

• right and wrong
LET’S TRY

1.Who is the speaker in the poem?

2.What is the message of the poem?
3. What elements of poetry are present in the poem?
Identify each.
Limerick. A limerick is a five-line poem with the rhyme scheme AABBA.
WRITE AND LEARN

Group Work
Write a Limerick about the following illustrations

Rubrics for rating:

Content- 20
Use of elements of poetry- 20
Grammar & organization- 10
Total 50 points
What are the elements of poetry?

How important are these elements in the meaning-making of a poem?

Create a hashtag for poetry and make an

acronym for POETRY.
 ASSESSMENT
Direction: Read the sentences carefully in each item and identify
what element of poetry is present in each item. Write you answers in
your notebook.
1. “Get out! Get lost!”
2. Poetry has verses while prose has paragraphs.
3. “One day, all the people that we love will leave us.”
4. AABA-BBCB-CCDC-DDDD
5. My excitement made the daffodils dance.
THANK YOU :)

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