poetic rhythm and rhyme. meter patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables the basic unit of meter...
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Poetic Rhythm and Rhyme
Meter
• Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables• The basic unit of meter is a foot.• Most common feet in English poetry:
Iamb / Trochee / Anapest / Dactyl / Spondee / /
Shakespeare’s SONNET 138 (IAMBIC)
U / U / U / U / U /When my love swears that she is made of truth
I do believe her though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutor’d youth
Trochaic /
/ / / / / / Pe·ter Pi·per picked a peck of pick·led pep·pers
Anapestic /
/ / /
There was an old man in a tree / / /
Who was hor·rib·ly bored by a bee / /
When they said, "Does it buzz?“ / /
He re·plied, "Yes, it does! / / /
It's a reg·u·lar brute of a bee!"
Edward Lear
/ Dactylic (po·e·try)
/ / / /
Picture your self in a boat on a river with / / / /
tangerine tree-ees and marmalade skii-ii-es.
Dactylic tetrameter ¾ time: The Beatles, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds “
Spondaic / /Rarely an entire line of poetry
/ / / /See Saw, Margery Daw
/ / / / I scream. You scream./ / / We all scream for ice cream
Metrical Lines
• One foot monometer• Two feet dimeter• Three feet trimeter• Four feet tetrameter• Five feet pentameter (iambic pentameter)• Six feet hexameter (dactylic hexameter)• Seven feet heptameter• Eight feet octameter
Stanzas
• 2 line stanzas: couplets
• 3 line stanzas: tercets triplets: aaa bbb ccc
ddd terza rima: aba bcb
cdc ded
• 4 line stanzas: quatrains
• 5 line stanzas: quintets
• 6 line stanzas: sestets
• 7 line stanzas: septets
• 8 line stanzas: octaves
Rhyme Scheme
The ends of lines repeat the same sounds.
Mary had a little jam,she spread it on a waffle.And if she hadn't eaten tenshe wouldn't feel so _____.
ABCB
The snow came downAnd covered the townThe snow came down last nightThe snow came downAnd covered the townAnd left it snowy _____.
AABAAB
Kinds of Rhyme
• Exact: eye/sky/pie; sing/ding/ring• Near or Half: sing/dung/rang• Eye: tough/through/dough• Internal:
"Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December"
/ /
• Masculine: rang/sang / /
• Feminine: ringing/singing
Practice
• Let’s complete some scansion practice!