This worksheet will help you to prepare for poetry analysis and also help you to revise key poetic terms.
What techniques make a poem particularly powerful?
How does the structure or rhyme pattern of a poem help convey ideas the poet wishes to reinforce to the reader?
By the end of this worksheet, you will be able to answer these questions.
You will also be able to better analyse poetry in exams and, enrich your own style of writing. Win, win!
You should always refer to your own text when working through these examples. These quotations are for reference only.
Want a bit more help with this before you begin? Why not watch this short video?