Poetry Terms

 

1) personification             

                    

2) imagery

 

3) alliteration     

                                 

4) simile

 

5) meter       

                          

6) rhyme scheme

 

Stars

I Like to See it Lap the Miles

 

Alone in the night

On a dark hill

With pines around me
Spicy and still,

 

And a heaven full of stars

Over my head,

White and topaz

And misty red;

 

Myriads with beating

Hearts of fire

That aeons

Cannot vex or tire;

 

Up the dome of heaven

Like a great hill,

I watch them marching

Stately and still,

 

And know that I

Am honored to be

Witness

Of so much majesty.

 

Sarah Teasdale

 

I like to see it lap the miles,

And lick the valleys up,

And stop to feed itself at tanks;

And then, prodigious,* step

 

Around a pile of mountains

And, supercilious,* peer

In shanties by the sides of roads;

And then a quarry pare*

 

To fit its sides, and crawl between,

Complaining all the while

In horrid, hooting stanza;

Then chase itself down hill

 

And neigh like Boanerges;*

Then, punctual as a star

Stop—docile* and omnipotent*—

At its own stable door.

 

Emily Dickinson

 

Prodigious: huge

Supercilious: proud and scornful

Pare: trim or peel away

Boanerges: any loud, thunderous public speaker

Docile: tame, easily handled

Omnipotent: all-powerful