Entry#15: Are you BIC-FOOT?

Meter - is a recurring pattern of stressed (accented, or long) and unstressed (unaccented, or short) syllables in lines of a set length.

Example:

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Significant – Meter helps the poem sounds good, rhythm, and entertains the readers while reading.

Entry#14: Zzzzz...

Elegy – poem for someone who died

Example:
Poets of centuries,
their words ever so eloquent
whisper their lives
which
Result in catastrophe
but preserves them forever
-in elegy 

                                    _Sakura Motoko_

Significance - shows the sorrowful emotions of the poet for one who has died. With the use of many elements of poetry, elegy is made in the purpose of lament, commemoration, and love.

Entry#13: Starfish

Couplet - a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed

Example:

I found a starfish in the bay

When I was fishing yesterday

Starfish, starfish in the ocean

Moving along in slow motion

Many arms and colored bright

Sea stars are special sight.

Significance – Similar to rhyme, couplet creates joy and enhances the interesting level to the poem.

Entry#12: GIMME MUSIC!

Rhyme - is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and is most often used in poetry and songs

Example:

Flesh that parts quiet along the knife blade
Lyrics that resonate, ring alive, fade.

                                    _Katherine Foreman_

Significance – rhyme creates music for them poems, make it more interesting and enjoyable to read.

Entry#11: Shakes it up!

Rhythm – melody of the poem that goes up and down, revealing stress and untress syllables.

 Example:

 A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!

                                                _Shakespeare_

 Significance – helps the reader to feel the poem’s expression and get more attraction, makes the poem more interesting when read.

Entry#10: Figures of speech (chapter 3)

 

Personification – Nonhuman thing is described as if it had the human qualities and characteristic.

Example:

The wind whispered through my ear but I vaguely heard a thing.

Significance – personification brings things to life, make the reader feel the poem is more livable, more honest, more close to them. It enhances the interesting level of the poem as well. 

Entry#9: Narrator

Speaker – the poem’s narrator, where personal expression and feeling are revealed.

Example:

 In the song of life, all lyrics need a melody.

You are the lyric and you are the melody.

You are the lyric of my heart and of my soul.

The beauty of the rose, speaks a lyric of love.

Love, speaks a lyric of you...

Significance – Speaker helps the readers to understand more about the emotional feelings of the poets, therefore it makes the reader gain a stronger and wider perspective about the poem and empathize with the thoughts and feelings which might be painful.