Key learning points

1. The structure of a poem affects our journey, as the reader, through the poem.
2. The structure gives us our first and last impression of the poem and therefore affects the tone.
3. You can make inferences based on the length of the stanza or the length of each line in a poem.
4. Enjambment and caesuras affect the pace of the poem.
5. A break in the rhyme scheme can affect the meaning of the poem.

Keywords

• Conceptualise - form a concept or idea of (something)

• Fragment - a small part broken off or separated from something

• Merge - combine or cause to combine to form a single entity

• Fracture - break or cause to break

Common misconception