Compare And Contrast Poems And Poems

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In life there are going to be things that are going to be different from other things. That’s is just how life is. To see all of the similarities is a very easy thing to do. But to have a profound knowledge of what the differences are, is a little challenging. In stories however it is really easy to detect the differences from the similarities. Poems on the other hand have a lot of different ways that they could be written and they also have a lot of different name, depending on the type of poem. There are poems that are really long and that are about ancient heroes, those are called epic poems. Another form of poem is the one you read to your kids, when you are first teaching them how to read, and those are the more traditional rhyming poems. Sometimes it is easy to detect …show more content…

Something that is totally different about them, compared to all the other forms of poems is, their structure. A sonnet is structured differently than any other form of poem. The way that a sonnet is written is that it only has fourteen lines. Other than the way that it rhymes, the way that it is written is distinguishable from all other poems. Whenever you see a poem that the name doesn’t give it away, but has fourteen lines, then that is a sonnet. The way that the fourteen lines are written are by making every other line rhyme, with every other previous one. It doesn’t make a lot of sense but an example would be: “(1) today I have a lot of work to do. (2) The sun is really bright out today. (3) I feel like I sit around like a fool.” If you didn’t pick up what happened, what happened was that the first and third line rhymed with each other. That is how a sonnet is structured, and is different from any other type of poem. How the structure is set up, is by an “AB AB CD CD EF EF GG”. What that means is that the first and third rhyme, the second and fourth rhyme, and so on. But the thirteenth and fourteenth lines rhyme

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