For this assignment, I will ask you to identify some of the Basic Terms of Poetry that you learned in the Your Thoughts about Poetry (Due 2/23) discussion.
However, before you complete this assignment, let me show you an example of how to complete this assignment using William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
First, let's listen to the poem, before you read it:
I was lucky enough to find this video of J'Kobe Wallace, North Dakota's "Poetry Out Loud" 2014 champion, reading this beautiful poem. Check it out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfM2RB9OzBo
The text of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
For the purposes of identifying the Basic Poetry terms in this poem, I am providing the text of the poem for you.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45521/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud
Identifying basic poetry terms in "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud:
Verse: the entire poem is considered verse. There are not any obvious repeated stanzas.
Line: an example of a line from this poem is the first line: "I wandered lonely as a cloud".
- When referring to a part in a poem, you refer to the line by the number. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" has 24 lines, so each line would have its respective number.
- For example, line 1 is the line I mentioned in the example. Line 2 would be the next line: "That floats on high o'er vales and hills," and so on.
Stanza: because this poem is broken into 4 stanzas with 6 lines each, it would be considered a sestet.
- Wordsworth also seems to end each stanza with a couplet. If you look closely, 🕵🏾 the last two lines of every stanza rhyme with each other, respectively.
Rhymed Poetry: Because Wordsworth uses rhyme throughout, it would be considered a rhymed poem.
- If you look at the first stanza, Wordsworth rhymes the last word of the first line, "cloud", with the last word in the third line, "crowd." The last word in the second line, "hills", rhymes with the last word in the fourth line, "daffodils".
- Wordsworth changes up his pattern with the last 2 lines in the stanza, though. 🤔 The last word in the fifth line of the first stanza, "trees", rhymes with the last word in the sixth line of the first stanza, "breeze".
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