IXL | Identify elements of poetry | 5th grade language arts

Choose the poem that uses repetition.

Woodman, spare that tree!

Touch not a single bough!

In youth it sheltered me,

And I'll protect it now.

How the danger sinks and swells,

By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells—

Of the bells—

Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells, bells, bells—

In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!

From George Pope Morris, "Woodman, Spare That Tree" and from Edgar Allan Poe, "The Bells"

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Choose the poem that uses end rhyme.

Black shapes bending,

Taxicabs crush in the crowd.

The tops are each a shining square

Shuttles that steadily press through woolly fabric.

The summer and autumn had been so wet,

That in winter the corn was growing yet:

'Twas a sorrowful sight to see, all around,

The grain lie rotting on the ground.

From John Gould Fletcher, "London Excursion" and adapted from Robert Southey, "The Legend of Bishop Hatto"

key idea

Poetry is a special kind of writing. It has many elements that make it different from ordinary writing. Knowing these elements can help you talk about poetry, understand it better, and enjoy it more.

A poem rhymes when it has a pattern of words that end in the same sound.

End rhyme is when the rhymes appear at the end of a poem's lines.

Little Betty Blue,

Lost her holiday shoe.

—From Mother Goose

Internal rhyme is when at least one of the rhyming words appears inside the poem's lines.

Sweet dreams of pleasant streams.

—From William Blake, "A Cradle Song"

Rhythm is the pattern of strong and weak syllables, or stress, in a poem. You can recognize rhythm in a poem by listening to how it sounds. Poems with regular rhythm have a beat, like in music.

He watches from his mountain walls,

And like a thunderbolt he falls.

—From Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Eagle"

The syllables in bold are strong. We say them with more force than the other syllables. In this poem, every weak syllable is followed by a strong syllable. Each line sounds like da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM. To better hear the rhythm, try reading it aloud while clapping on each strong syllable.

Free verse is when a poem has neither a regular rhythm nor a rhyme pattern.

The old bridge has a wrinkled face.

He bends his back

For us to go over.

—From Hilda Conkling, "The Old Bridge"

The syllables in bold are strong. You can see this poem does not have a regular rhythm. It also doesn't have a rhyme pattern.

Repetition is when words, phrases, or whole lines are repeated.

The dainty flying squirrel

In vest of shining white,

In coat of silver gray,

And vest of shining white.

—Adapted from Mary E. Burt, "The Flying Squirrel"

Alliteration is when beginning consonant sounds are repeated in words that are close together.

Where the wild men watched and waited

Wolves in the forest, and bears in the bush.

—From Bayard Taylor, "A Night with a Wolf"

Onomatopoeia is when language sounds like what it talks about.

Sometimes the onomatopoeia uses made-up words:

Tlot-tlot! tlot-tlot! Had they heard it? The horse hoofs ringing clear.

—From Alfred Noyes, "The Highwayman"

Sometimes the onomatopoeia uses real words:

Hark! the honey bee is humming.

—From Mary Howitt, "The Voice of Spring"

solution

This poem uses end rhyme. Its rhymes come at the end of its lines.

The summer and autumn had been so wet,

That in winter the corn was growing yet:

'Twas a sorrowful sight to see, all around,

The grain lie rotting on the ground.

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