Poetry

Elements of Poetry

• ​​​verse-one line of a poem
• Stanza-lines groups together like a paragraph
• rhythm-the beat of a poem
• meter- a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
• line break-where the line of text ends
• rhyme-words that have the same ending sound often found at the end of lines

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What can poetry help us do?

• ​​​express feeling
• experiment with words
• use all our senses
• inspire us
• build fluency

Poems can be:

• silly or serious
• have patterns
• have rhyming words
• about feelings
• have rhythm
• short or long

There are a lot of different types of poems!