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Poetry

Poetry. Rhythm. Form: The Shape of a Poem. Closed-form- L ines of poetry contain specific number of syllables measured by heavy stress (prime) or light stress (breve) Units of light and heavy stresses = feet. Method of Marking Feet. Feet- Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Poetry

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  1. Poetry Rhythm

  2. Form: The Shape of a Poem • Closed-form- Lines of poetry contain specific number of syllables measured by heavy stress (prime) or light stress (breve) • Units of light and heavy stresses = feet

  3. Method of Marking Feet • Feet- 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 / /

  4. Form Con’t • Analysis of poetic rhythm = prosody • Repetition of feet in a line of poetry • Monometer = one foot • Dimeter = two feet • Trimeter = three feet • Tetrameter = four feet • Pentameter = five feet *Turn to page 796.

  5. Types of Closed-form Poetry • Blank verse = five unrhymed iambic lines (iambic pentameter) • Couplet = two rhyming lines identical in length and meter • Tercet = three-line stanza, often all rhyming • Quatrain = four-line stanza, most common

  6. Types of Closed-Form Poetry Con’t • Sonnet = fourteen-line poem • Italian (Petrarchan) = one octave, one sestet, usually abba,abba,cdc,cdc • English (Shakespearean) = three quatrains, one couplet, sometimes abab,cdcd,efef,gg • Villanelle = nineteen-line poem containing six tercets, rhymed aba, concluded by four lines – most difficult to write • *Turn to page 820.

  7. Open-form Poetry • Does not rhyme, and does not have consistent meter • Also called free verse • Relies on content, assonance, alliteration, visual images • Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were early open-form poets

  8. Poetry Paper Assignment DUE: MW classes- 01/04/11 T TH classes- 01/05/11 • The paper must be 800-1000 words. • Choose FOUR poems from our book or any other resource. • Draw a picture (or clip pictures from a magazine) that represents the poem. • Analyze the poem. • What is the subject of the poem? • Scansion at least one stanza of the poem. • What type of rhyme scheme is used? Is it consistent? • Is there end rhyme? Internal rhyme? • What type of meter is used? Show a line from the poem marked in metered feet. • What other devices are being used? (alliteration, personification, monotony?) Give examples and explain. • What else do you want to say about the poem?

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