Elements+of+Poetry


 * Elements of Poetry** (Things most poems have in common)

-It has rhythm, or a pattern of beats, like music -It often has repetition-repeated sounds, words and lines -It may have words that rhyme -It often uses sense words -It may include imagery-figurative or descriptive language that creates word pictures. Figurative language includes comparisons of unlike things-metaphor, simile and personification -It may have lines grouped together in stanzas -Its lines may be arranged to form a shape on a page