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Loc: Poetry 180: Tour
This short two-stanza poem implies the importance of looking at things in two different ways.
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Loc: Poetry 180: One Morning
This two-stanza poem uses strong sensory imagery to describe upsetting discoveries one morning.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Meadow
This three-stanza poem describes a poet who asks questions about her soul.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Hand Shadows
This one-stanza poem describes a father demonstrating hand shadows while camping in a tent.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Nights
This three-stanza poem explains that she really does not want anything other than rest.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Thanks for Remembering Us
This two-stanza poem describes the event of receiving an arrangement of flowers by mistake.
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Loc: Poetry 180: My Daughters in New York
This seven-stanza poem expresses what a father imagines life would be like if his daughter moved to New York City.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Red Wing
This single-stanza poem discusses the topic of Red Wing shoes.
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Loc: Poetry 180: To a Daughter Leaving Home
This single-stanza poem expresses the thoughts regarding her daughter who is leaving her family's home.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer I Was Sixteen
This five-stanza non-prose autobiographical piece shares what the poet reminsces about her sixteenth year in the early 1960's.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer I Was Sixteen
This five-stanza poem describes life as a teenager hanging out with friends at the swimming pool.
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Loc: Poetry 180: She Didn't Mean to Do It
This three-stanza poem creates a feeling of mystery, pain, and sadness.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Coffee in the Afternoon
In this nine-stanza poem, the author shares a description of an afternoon coffee date.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Stanza
This is a glossary entry for "Stanza" including the definition of the term.
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Lexiconic.net: Elements of Poetry
This resource explains how to approach an analysis of a poem. It discusses assumptions people may have, the importance of reading it closely before analyzing it, looking at the stanza structure, the type of poem, the sound patterns,...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature: The Modern Poet: Poetry Terms
This is a poetry terms presentation which defines poetry terms.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Fast Break
In this poem, a basketball going through a net via a fast break, is shared within the seventeen, two-line stanzas.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Immortality
A poem about the topic of "immortality", as in the story of Sleeping Beauty, is shared within two stanzas.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Biscuit
This two-stanza poem describes a dog's trust in its owner.
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Loc: Poetry 180: After Us
This five-stanza poem is characterized by a mysterious mood and is introduced by a quote from the poet Tomas Transtromer, famous for
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Am Poems
Students will write and illustrate I Am poems. An I Am poem is an 18-line, three-stanza poem which students write about themselves, or a real or fictitious character. When all students have presented their poems to their classmates, the...