OPEN FORM AND CLOSED FORM

Which one of these is not about form?

• Rhythm

• Simile

• Stanza length

• Rhyme Scheme

Can an open form poem can still have rhyme and rhythm?

• Yes

• No

Is this poem open or closed form?

Barbara Allen by Unknown Author.

"It was in and about the Martinmas time,

When the leaves were a-falling,

That Sir John Graeme,

in the West country,

Fell in love with Barbara Allen"

• Open Form

• Closed Form

Is this poem open or closed form?

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

"Pity me not because the light of day

At close of day no longer walks the sky;

Pity me not for beauties passed away

From field and thicket as the year goes by

• Closed Form

• Open Form

Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"And the two scavengers up since four a.m.

grungy from their route

on the way home

The older of the two with grey iron hair

and hunched back"

• Open Form

• Closed Form

• open form

• closed form