| Site |
Annotation |
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Online Rhyming Dictionary |
Very simple to use
tool for students. You "search" for rhymes to a word.
I liked this tool because it let you do end rhymes, beginning
rhymes, double rhymes, etc. It also explain WHAT each kind
of rhyme was. |
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Sonnet Central |
This site is a
repository of sonnets from around the globe with a focus on
Elizabethan sonnets. |
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Online Magnetic Poetry |
A tool
for use with students. Simulates "magnetic poetry".
Different kits provide words on the screen that students can
click and drag into different arrangements. |
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PoetryZone |
A
clearinghouse for poetry information - lesson plans, interviews
with poets, poetry contests online, etc. |
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Academy of American Poets |
A
great resource of American poetry. Search by author, first
line, key word, title, etc. Also includes online audio
records of poems being read out loud! |
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Poet Links |
Organized by author - collections of links to texts of a range
of English poets works. |
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Favorite Poem Project |
Started by poet and writer Robert Pinsky, this project includes
video and audio footage of people reading their favorite poems. |
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Representative Poetry Online |
Another collection of a variety of famous poets' works online -
searchable in a variety of different ways. |
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The Poetic Link |
This
site allows you to critique amateur poetry and to submit your
own amateur poetry to be critiqued by others. |
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Freeality: Thesaurus |
A tool
for students - online searchable thesaurus and quote databases.
Useful when looking for the "right" phrase or the "right" word
for a poem. |
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Everypoet.com |
Another large archive of full-text poetry online. |
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The Poetry Resource |
A
clearinghouse of poetry information - links to other sites like
this one. |
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Contemporary American Poetry
Archive |
Full-text of many poems online. The nice thing about this
one is that the poems are from more "contemporary" authors.
Lots of free verse, non-traditional topics and themes.
SOME mature subject matter! |
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Line Break Explorer |
An
interactive tool/simulation for students. Lets them look
at how line breaks affect poetry and lets them try to change
line breaks within a poem. |
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Muse Poetry Generator |
Gives
students a "first line" of poetry for them to write from.
A little canned, but it could help a reluctant writer. |
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Instant Poetry Forms |
A long
list of "forms" that allow students to enter their own words in
and generate a poem. I personally liked the "William
Carlos Williams" tribute poems riffing off of "Plums". |
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Sestina Generator |
Simple
tool for students that lets them plug in the end words of a
sestina and see the resulting structure of the poem. |
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Tools for Analyzing Poetry |
A
no-nonsense outline of all of the different aspects of a poem
you might look at when reading it analytically. Include
links about meter, verse, forms, terms, etc. |
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Interactive Poetry |
"Real-time" creation of poems with other people around the
Internet who add a line at a time. Just be aware of
possible strong language as the site is uncensored. |
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Glossary of Literary Terms |
A
nice, fairly comprehensive list of terms relating to poetry. |
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