This document defines and explains the basic elements of a poem. It discusses poetic forms like stanzas, couplets, and rhyme schemes. It also covers poetic devices such as rhyme, meter, rhythm, theme, symbolism, and imagery. The document provides examples to illustrate these different elements and concepts.

1. BASIC ELEMENTS
OF A POEM

2. POETRY

3. POETRY
is defined as ‘literature in a metrical
form’ or ‘a composition forming
metric lines.’

4. BASIC ELEMENTS OF A POEM
Stanza is a series of lines grouped
together.

5. BASIC ELEMENTS OF A POEM
Couplet (2 lines) Sestet (6 lines)
Tercet (3 lines) Septet (7 lines)
Quatrain (4 lines) Octave (8 lines)
Cinquain (5 lines)

6. BASIC ELEMENTS OF A POEM
Rhyme is the repetition of similar
sound
end rhyme, alternating rhyme, internal
rhyme, freestyle

7. BASIC ELEMENTS OF A POEM
I saw a fairy in the wood,
He was dressed all in green.
He drew his sword while I just stood
And I realized I’d been seen

8. BASIC ELEMENTS OF A POEM
Rhyme scheme is a continuation of
rhymes

9. BASIC ELEMENTS OF A POEM
Meter – basic structural makeup of
a poem

10. BASIC ELEMENTS OF A POEM
Rhythm is the music made by the
stressed and unstressed syllables

11. BASIC ELEMENTS OF A POEM
Theme is the message of a poem

12. BASIC ELEMENTS OF A POEM
Symbolisms are composed of
symbols that convey ideas

13. BASIC ELEMENTS OF A POEM
Imagery – device used for readers
to create an image that
encompasses the five senses.

14. Vocabulary Check
Use the dictionary to define the
underlined word which will be
found in the poem to be read.

15. Vocabulary Check
1. He spun himself to
brightest day

16. Vocabulary Check
2. Who am thy Fountainhead.

17. Vocabulary Check
3. Of this so regal head.

18. Vocabulary Check
1. SPUN
Verb: a simple past tense and past participle of spin.
Adjective: formed by or as by spinning.

19. Vocabulary Check
1. FOUNTAINHEAD
noun
a fountain or spring from which a stream flows; the head
or source of a stream.
a chief source of anything:a fountainhead of information.

20. Vocabulary Check
1. REGAL
adjective
of or relating to a king; royal:the regal power.

21. Question:
How would you feel if instead of
appreciating the gifts of the past,
you receive nothing but
ingratitude?

22. About the Author
• Jose Garcia Villa (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was
a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He
was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for
literature in 1973, as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative
writing by Conrad Aiken. He is known to have introduced the
"reversed consonance rhyme scheme" in writing poetry, as well as
the extensive use of punctuation marks—especially commas, which
made him known as the Comma Poet.

23. About the Author
• He used the penname Doveglion(derived from
"Dove, Eagle, Lion"), based on the characters he derived
from himself. These animals were also explored by
another poet E. E. Cummings in Doveglion, Adventures in
Value, a poem dedicated to Villa.

24. God said, “I made a Man”
God said, “I made a man
Out of clay” –
But so bright he, he spun
Himself to brightest Day
Till he was all shining gold,
And oh,
He was handsome to behold!

25. God said, “I made a Man”
But in his hands held he a bow
Aimed at me who created
Him. And I said,
“Wouldn’t thou murder me
“Who am thy Fountainhead”

26. God said, “I made a Man”
Then spoke he the man of gold:
‘I will not
murder thee! I do but
Measure thee. Hold
Thy peace! And this I did,

27. God said, “I made a Man”
But I was curious
Of this so regal head.’
‘Give thy name!’ – Sir Genius
Source: Philippine Copyright 2005 Across Culture in Language and Philippine Literature.

28. Q and A
In your notebooks, answer the following
questions:
1. What is the poem all about?
2. Is the relationship of the past and the
present relevant in the text?

29. Q and A
3. What attribute of God is being described in the
poem?
4. How did God react to the ingratitude of His
creations?
5. How are the actions of the men in the past
significant to your situation right now?

30. BIBLICAL EXPLANATION
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the
beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without
him nothing was made that has been made.4 In him was
life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light
shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not
overcome it.

31. BIBLICAL EXPLANATION
6 There was a man sent from God whose name
was John. 7 He came as a witness to
testify concerning that light, so that through
him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the
light; he came only as a witness to the light.

32. BIBLICAL EXPLANATION
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the
world.10 He was in the world, and though the world was made
through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to
that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet
to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his
name, he gave the right to become children of God—
13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision
or a husband’s will, but born of God. John 1.1-13 (NIV)

33. Question:
How would you feel about the
things given to you?

34. WRAPPING UP

35. POETRY WHIZ
Identify the word or phrase
described in each statement.

36. POETRY WHIZ
1. It is a literary form simply defined as a
patterned expression of ideas or
imaginative terms usually containing
rhymes and meters.
POETRY/POEM

37. POETRY WHIZ
2. It is the recurrence or the repetition
of similar sounds in poetry.
RHYME

38. POETRY WHIZ
3. It is the regular pattern of stressed
and unstressed sounds.
RHYTHM

39. POETRY WHIZ
4. It is a vivid description of things
seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted.
SENSORY IMAGES/IMAGERY

40. POETRY WHIZ
5. It is a series of lines grouped
together.
STANZA

41. POETRY WHIZ
6. It is a stanza of a poem which has
two (2) lines.
COUPLET

42. POETRY WHIZ
7. It is an object in the poem that
symbolizes a significant idea.
SYMBOL

43. POETRY WHIZ
8. It is the underlying message of a
poetry.
THEME

44. POETRY WHIZ
9. “Sally sells sea shells by the sea
shore” is an example of what poetic
device?
ALLITERATION

45. POETRY WHIZ
10. What do you call a comparison that
uses words “as” and “like”?
SIMILE