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In Your Analysis, Answer The Following Four Questions:: Student Analysis of Metric Poetry, Free Verse, or Sonnet

This document provides instructions for students to analyze a poetic work in 3-4 sentences. It explains that the analysis should be at least 150 words and answer four questions about the poem's creator, its type of poetry through specific details of its form, the student's personal interpretation of its theme and message, and why they chose that particular poem. Getting details right about the form and style of poetry is emphasized, such as whether it is a sonnet and if so what type, or its system of meter and rhyme.

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In Your Analysis, Answer The Following Four Questions:: Student Analysis of Metric Poetry, Free Verse, or Sonnet

This document provides instructions for students to analyze a poetic work in 3-4 sentences. It explains that the analysis should be at least 150 words and answer four questions about the poem's creator, its type of poetry through specific details of its form, the student's personal interpretation of its theme and message, and why they chose that particular poem. Getting details right about the form and style of poetry is emphasized, such as whether it is a sonnet and if so what type, or its system of meter and rhyme.

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Student Analysis of Metric Poetry, Free Verse, or Sonnet

Minimum Word Count 150 per analysis!


Each Analysis is Worth 16 points total!

In your analysis, answer the following four questions:


1.) (Worth 2 pt.) Who Created this Poetic Work and When?
2.) (Worth 4 pts.) What Type of Poetry Is It?
Be specific, for example:
Is it Lyric Poetry, Dramatic Poetry, Epic Poetry, A Ballade, etc
Is it Classic, Modern, Abstract, etc
Is it Free Verse, Metric Poetry, a Sonnet:

English (Shakespearian) Sonnet explain why you think so!


Spenserian Sonnet explain why you think so!
Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet explain why you think so!

If Metric, What Type of Meter:

Iambic - two syllables, with the long or stressed syllable following the short or unstressed syllable.
Trochaic - two syllables, with the short or unstressed syllable following the long or stressed syllable.
Anapestic - three syllables, with the first two short or unstressed and the last long or stressed.
Dactylic - three syllables, with the first one long or stressed and the other two short or unstressed.
Other Forms or combinations

If it is a Rhyming Poem, What Type of Rhyme - (and describe the


Rhyme Scheme or distances between rhymes) - 'abab cdcd efed gg'

perfect: sight and flight, deign and gain, madness and sadness.
imperfect: a rhyme between a stressed and an unstressed syllable. (wing, caring)
masculine: a rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words. (rhyme, sublime)
feminine: a rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate (second from last) syllable of the words.
(picky, tricky)
dactylic: a rhyme in which the stress is on the antepenultimate (third from last) syllable ('cacophonies",
"Aristophanes")
syllabic: a rhyme in which the last syllable of each word sounds the same but does not necessarily
contain vowels. (cleaver, silver, or pitter, patter)
semirhyme: a rhyme with an extra syllable on one word. (bend, ending)
oblique (or slant): a rhyme with an imperfect match in sound. (green, fiend; one, thumb)
assonance: matching vowels. (shake, hate) Assonance is sometimes used to refer to slant rhymes.
consonance: matching consonants. (rabies, robbers)
half rhyme (or sprung rhyme): matching final consonants. (bent, ant)
alliteration (or head rhyme): matching initial consonants. (short,ship)
sight (or eye), or similarity in spelling but not in sound, as with cough, bough, or love, move.
end rhyme: a rhyme in the final syllable(s) of a verse (the most common kind)
internal rhyme: When a word at the end of the line rhymes with a word in the interior of the line.
Other Forms or combinations

3.) (Worth 6 pts.) What is Your Personal Interpretation of the Poetry?


(what is the general theme; more specifically, what do you think the creator of the piece is trying to convey
through the imagery, through the rhyme scheme or rhythm, through specific words used; how does it make
you feel, what images, or connections, does it conjure up in your mind)

4.) (Worth 4 pts.) Why did You Choose this Poetic Piece?
(why do you enjoy it, what lines or imagery will you remember or take away with you from the piece)

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