I was asked to teach how to write poetry today
Thought we would go over some of the basics:
Stanza...to stutter in poetry- Stan’s uh, Stan’s uh and so on
Forms...wooden poetic structure that you pour cement in
Lyric... someone telling Ric to lie
Narrative... Not even a tive or nairy a tive
Ode...A limph node missing the ‘n’
Elegy...poem written for a funeral
Sonnet... a Petrarchan sonnet sung by the Swedish group ABBA
Ballad... an engagement song a man sings to his wife-to-be
Epic... a record label owned by Sony
Rime... video game developed by Tequila Works
Un-rimed...they discontinued the video game
Haiku... someone greeting his friend \'Ku\'...\"Hi Ku!\"
Limerick... Telling Rick what to buy at the store... \"A Lime Rick\"
AABBA... there are two groups named Abba, this the first one or the A Group
Anapestic... medicine taken for the flu
Meter...little over a yard
Feet...2 thirds of a meter
Blank verse...a poem written with invisible ink
Free Verse...a poem that doesn’t cost anything
Iambic...the boy Bic affirming his name
Assonance...a donkey walking on top of a hill of ants
Consonance...Two cell-mates walking on the same hill
Onomatopoeia...word with all of the vowels but ‘u’ with a tomato (missing the ‘t’) on top
Simile...A smile with an extra ‘i’
Metaphor...For the first time you met your friend ‘Aphor’
Synecdoche... Christophe Doche - Faculty of Science and Engineering in Australia is a cynic
Metanymy...Met a person from New York using My Yahoo
Symbol...Something a drummer dings
Allegory...Al needs to let go of Ry
Personification... Person with a positively charged ion...(kind of ‘iffy’)
Irony...Something with a lot of iron in it
Hyperbole...energetic trunk of a tree
Sarcasm... Search and Rescue the boy that fell in the Chasm
Tone...a musical note
Mood...if in a good one, you’ll write a poem
Atmosphere...the air you breathe
Imagery...Picture on the front of the Royal Bank of Canada
Tetrameter couplets...two fish swimming a little over a yard in distance
Trochees...two little
Spondees...when the \'Dee\' fish spawn up the river
Dactyls... He tills the earth to find two Digital-to-Analog Converters
Anapests...Mosquitos that are bothering Ana
--c aaron