How to Write an Elegy Poem | Poetry Writing for Kids and Beginners
So, you know what poetry is. Great! But, have you ever wondered what an Elegy Poem is? This video is called How to Write an Elegy Poem and is Topic 10 of the series Poetry Writing for Kids. In this video you will learn what an Elegy poem is, the elements of an Elegy poem, and the structure of an Elegy poem. Watch this video to learn how you can write an Elegy poem from start to finish!
This video is part of the 13-part Poetry Writing for Kids series for Grades K-5. You will learn what poetry writing is, why authors write poems, the elements of poetry, and how to identify the different forms of poetry. Let's get started!
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This video is part of the 13-part Poetry Writing for Kids series for Grades K-5. You will learn what poetry writing is, why authors write poems, the elements of poetry, and how to identify the different forms of poetry. Let's get started!
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00:00Poetry Writing for Kids
00:04Topic 10 Writing an Elegy
00:09A poem can be a collection of words that expresses feelings or ideas, sometimes with a specific
00:15meaning, sound, or rhythm.
00:18An elegy is a serious reflection.
00:21In English literature, it is often a lament or a passionate expression of grief or sorrow.
00:28If you do not want to hear about these things, please skip to the structure of an elegy.
00:35The word elegy comes from the Greek word elegis, which means a song of bereavement.
00:42It is usually sung with a musical instrument called a flute.
00:46An elegy sometimes has a pessimistic tone or a monumentalizing tone.
00:53The Greek term elegia originally referred to any term related to the subject matter
00:58of death, love, and war.
01:04Elegy poems do not follow a specific rhyme structure, but often rhyme depending on the
01:09poet.
01:11Many elegy poems are broken up into three parts that include rhyme, meter, and structure,
01:17while expressing grief, praise, and consolation.
01:22Many traditional elegies follow an iambic pentameter of da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum,
01:29da-dum, with a rhyme scheme, which sets the rhythm for the poem.
01:34Let's go over some of these elements of poetry.
01:39Rhyme is a repetitive pattern of sounds found in a poem.
01:44It can be used to reinforce a pattern or rhyme scheme.
01:48Some kinds of rhymes you might find in poetry are end rhyme, imperfect rhyme, internal rhyme,
01:57masculine rhyme, and feminine rhyme.
02:01End rhyme is a common type of rhyme in poetry that occurs when the last word of two or more
02:07lines rhymes.
02:09Imperfect rhyme is a type of rhyme that occurs in words that do not have an identical sound.
02:16Internal rhyme occurs in the middle of lines in poetry.
02:21Masculine rhyme is a rhyming between stressed syllables at the end of verse lines.
02:27Feminine rhyme is a rhyming between unstressed syllables at the end of verse lines.
02:34A meter is the pattern of a poem.
02:37Poets carefully arrange the words and word parts in their poems to make specific patterns
02:42and explain how they want these patterns to be read.
02:46Examples of meter are lamb, despair, exclude, repeat, crochet, sister, flower, splinter,
02:58doctile, similar, different, fantastic, and the pest.
03:04Understand basketball, disgusted, spondee, drumbeat, habit, finish, conflict, and pyrrhic,
03:14opposite of spondee.
03:18Structure is how the words of a poem are organized.
03:22The elements of structure include stanza, verse, and canto.
03:28A stanza is a group of lines separated from other groups of lines by a blank line or indentation.
03:36A verse is a stanza that doesn't have a specific number of lines, but it all goes
03:41together and makes sense.
03:44A canto is a pattern that can be found in some medieval poetry and long poems like Dante
03:51Alighieri's Commedia, The Divine Comedy, and Edmund Spencer's The Fairy Queen.
03:59Let's take a closer look at an elegy written by Lord Tennyson in 1833.
04:06This was one of the greatest poems of the Victorian era and was written to commemorate
04:10his best friend, Arthur Henry Allum, after his sudden passing.
04:17In Memoriam, A.H.H.
04:22Dark house, by which once more I stand, here in the long, unlovely street.
04:28Doors, where my heart used to beat, so quickly, waiting for a hand, a hand that can be clasped
04:37no more.
04:38Behold me, for I cannot sleep, and like a guilty thing I creep.
04:45An earliest morning to the door.
04:48He is not here, but far away.
04:51The noise of life begins again, and ghastly throw, the drizzling rain, on the bald street
04:59breaks the blank day.
05:02Let's take a look at the structure of this poem.
05:06This poem is a long structure of an elegy, which includes a grief, praise, and consolation.
05:13This elegy follows an iambic pantomime of da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, which
05:20sets the rhythm.
05:22This poet has chosen which lines they want to follow a rhyme scheme.
05:28This poet wrote three four-line stanzas, the first line rhyming with the last line, and
05:35the second line rhyming with the third line.
05:39Now I will write my own elegy poem.
05:44First I will need to brainstorm a subject for my elegy.
05:48I think I will write about my lost cat.
05:52Then I will need to decide how many stanzas I want to write my elegy poem in.
05:59I will write my elegy in three stanzas.
06:04Next I will need to decide the rhyme scheme for my elegy.
06:09Last I will need to put my words together for my readers.
06:14Let's try it.
06:17My Lost Cat
06:21Sweet bed you once reside, pitter-patter went your feet.
06:26Soft crunches when you eat, doth scurry to run and hide.
06:32How calm thou soft purr hums, when storms do come and go.
06:38You never will truly know, the calm your sound doth drums.
06:44Ease the sorrow within, such is a profound sound.
06:49This earth for which you ground, long your cheeky grin.
06:56I did it!
06:58I wrote an elegy poem about my lost cat while expressing grief, praise, and consolation.
07:05I also followed the pentameter of da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum with the rhyme
07:13scheme and set the rhythm for my poem.
07:18Now it's your turn.
07:21First you will need to brainstorm a subject for your elegy poem.
07:26Then you will need to decide how many stanzas you want to write your elegy poem in.
07:33Next, you will need to decide the rhyme scheme for your elegy.
07:38Last, you will need to put your words together for your readers.
07:44Would you like to learn how you can write any type of poem?
07:48Then be sure to check out the next and final video in the series called Writing a Ballad
07:54to learn how you can write your own ballad from start to finish.
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