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Poetry Terms and Examples. S. Colley 2011-2012. Patterns of Sound. Rhyme – the repetition of sound End rhyme: rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry Internal rhyme: rhymes inside the lines Eye-rhyme: rhymes that look alike, but do not sound alike. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Poetry Terms and Examples
S. Colley2011-2012
Patterns of Sound
Rhyme – the repetition of sound End rhyme: rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry Internal rhyme: rhymes inside the lines Eye-rhyme: rhymes that look alike, but do not
sound alike. Rhyme scheme: using letters to show the
arrangement of rhyme
End rhyme
Words end in the same sound like
Flake, ache “Your are old, Father William,” the young man said
“And your hair has become very white,And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think, at your age, it is right?”
Internal rhyme
When the rhyme is inside the lines.
The splendor falls on castle wallsAnd snowy summits old in story;The long light shakes across the lakes,And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Eye-rhyme
When the rhyme looks the same, but does not sound the same.
At once a voice arose amongThe bleak twigs overheadIn a fullhearted evensongOf joy illimited.
Rhyme Scheme
Using letters to show the arrangement of rhyme.
How doth the little crocodileImprove his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the NileOn every golden scale!
Rhyme scheme is abab
More patterns of sound
Onomatopoeia – a word that sounds like what it describes
Alliteration: the repetition of initial vowels or consonants
Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds.
Onomatopoeia
Pow Bang
Kapow
Alliteration
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Assonance
Fish, lift, miss and blip
Consanance
Assured of certain certainties,The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
ASSIGNMENT
You are to find a poem to illustrate each pattern sound – total of 3-6 poems
On each poem highlight the pattern of sound AND explain why.
60 points Due: _________________ Quiz on Patterns of sound to follow soon.
Meter and Stanza
By controlling the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poems, poets can create regular rhythm, called METER. They do this by using small units of meter; each unit is called a FOOT.
Iamb – 2 syllable foot with stress on the SECOND syllable.
IAMB
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell; the reason why I cannot tell.
Trochee
2 syllable foot, stress on 1st syllable
Mary, Mary, quite contrary….
Spondee
2 syllable foot, stress on both syllables (in a row)
And a merry OLD SOUL was he. This is the house that JACK BUILT.
Stanza
Couplet – 2 line stanza Triplet – 3 line stanza Quatrain – 4 line stanza Quintet – 5 line stanza Sestet – 6 line stanza Sonnet – English – 14 lines, 3 quatrains + 1
couplet. Sonnet – Italian – 14 lines, 1 octave, + 1 sestet
Limericks
5 line nonsense poem Rhyme scheme of aabba Lines, one, two and five rhyme and lines three
and four rhyme.There was an old person of Nice,
Whose associates were usually GeeseThey walked out together
In all sorts of weather.The affable person of Nice!
Limerick
There was an old man on the Border,Who live in the utmost disorder;
He danced with the cat,And made tea in his hat,
Which vexed all the folks on the Border.
Figures of speech
Simile – an openly expressed comparison using like or as.
Metaphor – an implied comparison Personification – portraying an object as a
person Apostrophe – addressing someone or
something not present
Simile
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky LIKE strings of
broken lyres.
Metaphor
I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.
Personification
The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright.
Apostrophe
O CAPTAIN! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought
is won,The port is near, the bells I hear the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and
daring; But O heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red! Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.