Examples of Concrete Poem: Stairs I climb. Every day. A different priority. Slowly making progress toward success, success, success. No time to stop, to rest, to appreciate the small things around me-the air, the flowers, even the people I meet are standing in the way of the climb. Fr...
The poem perfectly demonstrates how a concrete poem can convey the beauty of the object being discussed. In this example, Betts describes the beauty of a tree by using her words to draw the beauty she sees. “There is a beauty found in trees.. From the swayof their branches. To the el...
Barack Obama. The poem doesn't rhyme, but it creates a song-like effect through the rhythmic repetition of phrases. By echoing a traditional African form, Alexander paid tribute to African culture in the United States and called for people...
In each of these cases, an abstract concept (grief, justice, and a character’s personality) is compared to a specific concrete image (a wall, a boat, and a cactus). The concrete images help the reader understand what the author is trying to say about the abstract concept. Step 3: Che...
The poem ”The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe: The strongest example of foreshadowing comes in the form of the black and white cat, who not only is missing an eye like Pluto, reminding the narrator of his violent act, but the white mark on his chest changes shape to look like a gall...
A poem that has no rhyme but has an iambic pentameter which means it contains lines of five feet (each foot representing an iambic) and has two syllables, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. It has no fixed number of lines and is often used in descriptive poems, reflect...
The abecedarian poem is a type of acrostic in which the first letter of each line runs in alphabetical order. Naturally, most English-language abecedarian poems are 26 lines long. Despite the challenge of following alphabetical order, a good abecedarian will still rely on using concrete nouns and...
While ekphrastic poems usually describe the interaction between the narrator and a work of art, they also describe how a work of art has specifically impacted someone. That takes place in the poem by John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” The narrator interacts with an ancient vessel, which...
The epic poem Paradise Lost has a number of instances of chiasmus. In these lines, "Adam" parallels "Eve," and "men" parallels "women." Chiasmus gives the lines a compact and pleasing pattern, as well as a lilting cadence. Adam, first of men, To first of women, Eve The excerpt from...
is an in-depth introduction to how to write a poem. We first answer the question, “What is poetry?” We then discuss the literary elements of poetry, and showcase some different approaches to the writing process—including our own seven-step process on how to write a poem step by step...