Peter Piper ate Pizza

He danced like a butterfly.

A two line stanza that rhymes

A teenage girl leaves the house for an evening out with her friends. Her mother makes her promise to be back before midnight. The girl kisses her mother and tells her she worries too much. She'll be fine, she says.

a 14 line poem that consists of 3 quatrains and a couplet

“BANG” & “BOOM”

The snow is a white blanket.

A 4 line stanza in a poem (that usually has a rhyme pattern)

The pattern of stressed and stressed syllables

a lyric poem that expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker, often celebrating a person, event, or thing

Dawn goes down along with her crown

I’m so hungry I could eat the world.

Poetry without a fixed pattern of meter and rhyme

The pizza was covered in tomatoes. It had tons of layers of white cheese, and the oregano smell could be sniffed.

A poem that includes a metaphor that extends over several lines or the entire poem

Men sell the wedding bells.

A white dove arrived to arrived into town and we knew things would get better.

The pattern of rhyme throughout the poem
Ex. ABAB

and I made my own way
and I wrote the first line
and I saw the heavens

A repeated line or phrase throughout the poem

A horse is a horse, of course, of course.

Where the ocean kissed the southern shore.

A rhythmic pattern that contains 5 feet, each consisting of 1 unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

A reference made to a well known person, event, or place from history, music, art, or other literary work

A poem that uses repetition and variation in the creation of a list of objects, desires, plans, or memories