7-1 Elements of Poetry

The two styles of writing in English are prose and poetry. Everything we have read in this class has been prose. Poetry is an artform found all over the world. Poetry uses written and spoken words to express experience and emotion.The two styles of writing in English are prose and poetry.  Everything we have read in this class has been prose. Poetry is an artform found all over the world. A fun element of poetry is that it often breaks many rules of the English language, but you must first understand the rules of poetry in order to effectively break them.

Poetry comes in many different forms and styles; however, many of these styles use similar elements. When people think of poetry, rhyme is what they think of first. Poetry doesn’t have to rhyme, but rhyme is common. Words rhyme when they sound very similar like “cat” and “fat.”  There are many different kinds of rhyme found in poetry, but here are two common types: