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Poetic Rhythm and Rhyme

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)

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Poetic Rhythm and Rhyme

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  1. Poetic Rhythm and Rhyme

  2. 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 / /

  3. 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

  4. Trochaic /  /  /  /  /  /  / Pe·ter Pi·per picked a peck ofpick·led pep·pers

  5. Anapestic   /  /   /   / There was an old man in a tree •  /   /   / Who was hor·rib·ly bored by abee   /   / When they said, "Does itbuzz?“   /   / He re·plied, "Yes, itdoes!   /   /   / It's a reg·u·lar brute of a bee!" Edward Lear

  6. /   Dactylic (po·e·try) /   /   /   /   Picture your self in a boat on a river with /   /   /   /   tangerine tree-ees and marmaladeskii-ii-es. Dactylic tetrameter ¾ time: The Beatles, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds “

  7. Spondaic / /Rarely an entire line of poetry / / /   / See Saw, Margery Daw / / / / I scream. You scream. /  /  /  We all scream for ice cream

  8. Metrical Lines • One footmonometer • Two feetdimeter • Three feettrimeter • Four feettetrameter • Five feetpentameter (iambic pentameter) • Six feet hexameter (dactylic hexameter) • Seven feetheptameter • Eight feetoctameter

  9. 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 Stanzas

  10. AABAAB The snow came downAnd covered the townThe snow came down last nightThe snow came downAnd covered the townAnd left it snowy _____. Mary had a little jam,she spread it on a waffle.And if she hadn't eaten tenshe wouldn't feel so _____. ABCB Rhyme Scheme The ends of lines repeat the same sounds.

  11. 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

  12. Practice • Let’s complete some scansion practice!

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