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If you are a poet who likes knowing what you do with words and verses, even when you freestyle, this page may be just a reading away from your poetry goals.

Learn the basics of writing haiku, classical rhyme schemes, and rhythms, that to this day still create beautiful and engaging poetry.

What is Poetry?

Poetry is writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm. If this meaning from MWD sounds a bit abstract, learn to say it simpler. Think IMAGE, CONCEPT, VERSE.

What is A Haiku?

A haiku is an unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having three lines containing usually five, seven, and five syllables, respectively. A poem in this form having a seasonal reference.

Haiku Rules

Haiku rules consist of a theme about nature (natural scenery), a seasonal reference (any of the four seasons, including seasonal life cycles (ecological behavior), and a coda (a line that serves to round out, conclude, or summarize, and usually with its own interest).

What is Classical Poetry?

Classical poetry relates to ancient Greek and Roman poetry.

What is Rhyme?

Rhyme is verse; poetry; a composition in verse that rhymes.

What is A Rhyme Scheme?

A rhyme scheme is the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem.

Examples of Rhyme Schemes:

Tercet: A stanza of three lines whose last words all rhyme (such as, AAA in The cat, the rat, the bat). Other three-line rhyme schemes are called triplets and include rhymes schemes like: ABA (such as, the cat, the dog, the rat) where the second unrhymed line is enclosed between two rhyming lines, or any other three-line stanza other than the tercet.

Terza Rima: Terza Rima is composed of three-line rhyming schemes where line 1 rhymes with line 3, line 2 rhymes with line 4, line 4 rhymes with lines 2 and 6, line 5 rhymes with lines 7 and 9, line 6 rhymes with lines 2 and 4, line 7 rhymes with lines 5 and 9, line 8 does not rhyme with any line before or after it, and line 9 rhymes with lines 5 and 7 (such as: ABA, BCB, and CDC). Additional lines to end terza rima poems can include endings with EFE F, or EFE FF, or EFE FEF) and, therefore, the “third rhyme” (terza rima).

Triplet: A triple is a unit of three lines of verse, not necessarily rhyming.

What is Rhythm in Poetry?

Rhythm in poetry is the flow of sound and silence in speech. In poetry, rhythm is the strong and weak elements in the flow of poetry. Rhythm in poetry happens when two or more sounds are written in a line of verse.

A rhythm begins with a word that has at least two sounds or syllables (such as a single iambic rhythm whose sound consists of one short syllable followed by one long syllable, or one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (such as, a-BOVE, or be-TWEEN).

Other common rhythmic patterns are Trochee, whose sound patterns are the opposite of iambic (such as, BLEN-der, or CHA-ser); and Spondee, which consists of at least three sounds consisting of two stressed syllables followed by one unstressed syllable (such as, HALF VOL-ley, or HALF DU-plex).:

What is A “Foot” in Poetry?

A foot in poetry is the basic unit of verse meter consisting of any of various fixed combinations or groups of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables. See iambic rhythm for a single iambic foot.

What is Meter?

Meter is a rhythm created by one or more metrical feet that continuously repeats a single basic pattern (such as this Iambic pattern: a-BOVE, be-TEEN, be-LOW, be-FORE).

What Are Some Types of Meter?

Monometer: A line of verse consisting of a single metrical foot or diploid (two sounds).

Dimeter: A line of verse consisting of two metrical feet or two dipodies.

Trimeter: A line of metric verse consisting of three dipodies or three metrical feet.

Tetrameter: A line of verse consisting of four dipodies or four metrical feet.

Pentameter: A line of verse consisting of five dipodies or five metrical feet.

Hexameter: A line of verse consisting of six dipodies or six metrical feet.

Heptameter: A line of verse consisting of seven metrical feet.

Octameter: A line of verse consisting of eight dipodies or eight metrical feet.

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