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Rhyme Scheme and Meter

Rhyme Scheme and Meter. Poetry Terms. rhyme scheme. repetition of accented vowels sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem. rhyme scheme. Let’s practice with this Robert Frost poem: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fire-and-ice/. The Line.

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Rhyme Scheme and Meter

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  1. Rhyme Scheme and Meter Poetry Terms

  2. rhyme scheme • repetition of accented vowels sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem

  3. rhyme scheme • Let’s practice with this Robert Frost poem: • http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fire-and-ice/

  4. The Line • Let’s practice with this Robert Frost poem: • http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fire-and-ice/

  5. scansion • It is the analysis of the rhyme and meter of a poem. It should tie in to the poem’s overall meaning.

  6. Foot • It is the basic building block of poetry.

  7. Foot • It is a pattern of syllables. Usually, one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables (exceptions exist).

  8. Foot • The pattern of feet create the meter of a poem.

  9. Meter • It is the pattern of beats or accents. Unstressed= U Stressed = /

  10. iamb (iambic) • An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

  11. iamb (iambic) • forget • deceive The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls.

  12. trochee (trochaic) • A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

  13. trochee (trochaic) • listen • lonely Double, double, toil and trouble

  14. anapest (anapestic) • Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable

  15. anapest (anapestic) • obvious • regular For the moon never beams without bring-ing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

  16. dactyl (dactylic) • One stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

  17. dactyl (dactylic) • excellent • temperate …you murdering ministers...

  18. spondee (spondaic) • Two stressed syllables

  19. spondee (spondaic) • downtown • shoeshine ROCKS, CAVES | LAKES, FENS | BOGS, DENS| and SHADES | of DEATH

  20. pyrrhic • Two unstressed syllables

  21. pyrrhic • and the • of the Be near me when my light is low,    When the bloodcreeps and the nervesprick    And tingle; and the heart is sick,And all the wheels of Being slow.

  22. The Line • The poetic line is measured by the number of feet it contains.

  23. 1 foot Monometer 2 feet Dimeter 3 feet Trimeter 4 feet Tetrameter 5 feet Pentameter The Line

  24. 6 feet Hexameter 7 feet Heptameter 8 feet Octameter 9 feet Nonometer 10 feet Decameter The Line

  25. The Stanza • 1 line………...a line • 2 lines……….a couplet • 3 lines……….tercet • 4 lines……….quatrain • 5 lines……….cinquain • 6 lines……….sestet • 7 lines……….septet • 8 lines……….octave

  26. Write out the poetic markings for • Dactylic trimeter • Anapestic dimeter • Spondaic monometer • Trochaic tetrameter

  27. Identify the meter of each line • And today the Great Yertle, that Marvelous he Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see

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