Analyzing the Structure of Poetry
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Subject Area: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.) | Grade Level: 7
Lesson Length: 30 minutes
Keywords/Tags: ELAGSE7RL5
Lesson Description: In this lesson, students will learn a strategy to employ when analyzing poetry. This includes analyzing form, literary devices, tone, and meaning to understand its structure.

  • ELA.7.R.1.4 Analyze the impact of various poetic forms on meaning and style.
  • Other ELAGSE7RL5: Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.
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Video : Analyze ANY Poem With These Steps!
Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.
Quiz : Analyzing a Poem Video Quiz
Instructions: After watching the video, answer the questions based on the information. You can take this quiz as many times needed.
Question #1
What makes up 1 iamb?
Question #2
Iambic Tetrameter means that the poem sounds more harmonious and pleasing to the ear.
Question #3
The form of the stanzas in the poem, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", is ABABCC.
Question #4
What do the last two lines in each stanza of the poem, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", end in?
Question #5

Which is NOT a literary device mentioned in the analysis of the poem?

Question #6

Fanciful is another word for 

Question #7
How does the speaker change by the end of the poem? How do you know?
Question #8
The speaker is gaining a new understanding of wealth that the daffodils brought in reference to money.
Question #9
“The waves beside them danced” is an example of personification.
Question #10
“Lonely as a cloud” is an example of a hyperbole.
Resources : Poetry Types PowerPoint & How to Analyze a Shakespearean Sonnet
Instructions: Please see additional external resources below. Feel free visit the PowerPoint, video, and resource to learn more about this lesson and progress to the analysis of other literature such as sonnets and soliloquies.
Poetry Types PowerPoint
This PowerPoint provides information on additional poetry types and their structure. View to dive deeper into the function of poetry in literature.
How to Analyze a Shakespearean Sonnet
Watch this video for additional strategies for analyzing sonnets.
Reading : The Kennedy Center-Shakespeare's Sonnets
Instructions: Please read the following article as many times as needed (aloud and silent) before starting to go through the rest of the lesson pages. Understanding the content of this passage is very important since the following lesson activities will be all about this content. Feel free to print the article if needed.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Description: Follow this link to learn more about sonnets and their structure.