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Connected imagery makes the poem work together more and can connect ideas to each other better.

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Varying line lengths can help to make your poem more engaging and it can also help to emphasize certain lines.

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Longer lines, more of a paragraph format

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Longer lines, more of a paragraph format

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This was in "Everybody Has a Heartache". It made the poem feel more like a story, and emphasized the images that she used when writing.

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long stanzas with long words for anticipation

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I think that sentence structure is extremely important to a poem because it affects the rhythm and the flow of the poem. When a poem doesn't have flow, it distracts the reader from the main idea you're trying to get across

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Writing words in specific places in the poem helps emphasize the theme or idea.

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Ending a stanza with the antithesis of the beginning

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Exclamation marks seem to automatically set the tone for a poem. Even without reading it, if you skim a poem and see an exclamation mark, you know how you should read the poem either aloud or to yourself.

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repetition, repeating certain words or phrases to sort of stress the importance of something

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repetition, repeating certain words or phrases to sort of stress the importance of something

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Selectively adding periods at the ends of some important lines can make them stand out and become emphasized. This is because the line then becomes a statement.

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"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day?"

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"Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day?"

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In this poem, I believe that one of the key elements that stood out to me the most is imagery and visualization. This was really important to me, because it helps keep the reader thinking and sparks imagination through endless and relatable subjects. Having elements like this in a poem holds an important virtue as well, such as keeping the audience engaged.

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I saw this a lot in Emily Dickinson's "Wild Nights". It made the poem feel a lot more alive and exciting because of that intense and abrupt sound.

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Word choice with imagery helps add to the tone of the poem. Example: In Jillian's poem, she used the phrase "spying children" which helped emphasize the playful tone of the poem.

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Images that are repeated in a different way can helps to emphasize the topic that the poet is writing

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the re was a line in a stanza and the in the next stanza in a similar spot there was a word that rhymed with the one in the stanza before which helped to connect the stanzas more

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In my mind, often times, rhyming adds to a more up beat and cheerful tone. I think it's usage makes the poem lighter, and that it can be out of place in a darker poem, either in topic or in tone.

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imagery invoking senses other than sight

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imagery invoking senses other than sight

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creates a vivid experience for the reader

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beginning and ending of poem relate to eachother

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beginning and ending of poem relate to eachother

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can be used to really emphasize what is important and set the tone of the poem

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Repetition was an element that was used often in this poem. The author used repetition to emphasize the emotions of the people in the story, Repetition is useful because it can make the main idea of your poem clearer while also helping the reader understand your tone.

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repeating an idea several times throughout the poem to get the image across or to emphasize the importance of the image

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In Pickard's "Valentine", this soft, long sound is calming and soothing. It helps further the theme of love as peaceful and everyday.

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What are some specific elements (a way of using images, rhyme, grammar, etc.) that you think are...

1. important to look for in poems you read to better understand them ?

2. useful tools in writing your own poems?

Create a new post of each element you think of. Include the title of the poem that you encountered the element in.