Poetry Vocabulary Worksheet for Poem Analysis
Analytical word banks and sentence stems help students discuss implied meaning and poetic technique, then apply them in eight tasks on Brian Patten's poem Remembering Snow.

- Grades
- Grades 8–10, Middle School, High School
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- ELA, Literature, Poetry
- Topic
- vocabulary, poetry
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
- Preparation
- Print ready
About this resource
What's inside this resource
This resource is a 2-page handout for students to do a deep-dive in poetry analysis through the use of vocabulary words.
Students will explore the different types of key words and phrases that can be most effective when writing or reading poetry.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Explain implied meaning in a poem using analytical vocabulary
- Evaluate a poet's use of technique at word, sentence and structure level
Teaching tips
- Once students finish the Remembering Snow tasks, the stems could be reused to analyze a different poem.
Skills covered
- Analytical writing — completing sentence stems that interpret and evaluate lines of Remembering Snow
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Where do students read Remembering Snow?
The worksheet points to the poet's website for the poem; the poem's text is not printed in this PDF.
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
- Implied meaning
- Poetic technique
- Poem structure
- Analytical vocabulary
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