Poetry Analysis

Subject: ELA  ·  Grade level: 9th

Learn to read poetry deeply — sound, structure, and meaning. Poetry packs huge meaning into very few words. Once you know what to listen for — rhythm, sound,

In this lesson

• Form & structure
• Sound: rhythm, rhyme, and music
• Imagery, metaphor, and theme

Key terms

Stanza

A group of lines, like a paragraph in a poem.

Sonnet

A 14-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme. Shakespeare wrote a lot of these.

Haiku

A 3-line Japanese form with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern, usually about nature.

Free verse

Poetry without a fixed meter or rhyme scheme.

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