Poetry
Published on Nov 23, 2015
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Rhyming Couplets
Then the travler in the dark will thank you for your tiny spark.
A rhyming couplet is a unit of a verse consisting of two lines that usually rhyme.
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Free Verse
I'd dreamed in a dream I saw a city invincible to attacks of the whole rest of the earth, I'd dreamed that was the new city of friends, nothing was greater there than the quality of robust love, everything in it led to rest
-Walt Whitman
A free verse is a poem written without rhyme, rhythm, or specific structure.
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Similies
A friend is like a mystery, still to be discovered, waiting to be figured out.
A similar is a comparison of two things using like or as.
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Metaphor
It might interest you to know, speaking of the plentiful imagery of the world, that I am the sound of rain on the roof
A form figurative language when two things are compared without using like or as.
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Perification
Snow speakeps to people. Its white sparkling voice eochos as it falls through the air.
Personification is the giving of human qualities to an animal or in animate object.
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In the light of the early morning the fog crept silently into the harbor. It seemed to swallow the boats like a gigantic mouth. It swept over and under the dock and around the large boats. When people came to the dock later in the morning the fog had seemed to magically disappear into thin air.
Photo by CarbonNYC [in SF!]
