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Poetry Exercise 1

Answer the following questions:

            **Make sure you write on the poem

 

1.  How many stanzas does your poem have?                                                                   

            1a.  Name the type of stanza(s)                                                                            

 2.  Does your poem have end rhyme or is it a free verse poem?                                   

 3.  Does your poem have any enjambments                                                                  

            3a.  Use an arrow and show which lines have enjambment.

 4.  Does your poem have any metaphors?                                                                         

4.      Circle the things being compared in the line.

 5.  Is there a refrain?                                                                                                       

            5a.  Write the refrain here                                                                                    

 6.  Does your poem have any similes?                                                                              

            6a.  Underline the similes.

 7.  Does your poem have any alliteration?                                                                        

            7a.  Star the words with alliteration.

 8.  Is there any internal rhymes in your poem?                                                              

            8a.  Box any internal rhymes.

 9.  Tell the literal story of the poem:                                                                              

                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                 

 10.  In your opinion, why was the poem written?  What is the poet trying to say?                                                                                                                                                

                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                              

 

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