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Sounds and Rhythm in Poetry

Sounds and Rhythm in Poetry. Audible Sounds. Onomatopoeia (16) – use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes Quack, buzz, rattle, bang, squeak, bowwow, burp, choo-choo Alliteration (14) – repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words

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Sounds and Rhythm in Poetry

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  1. Sounds and Rhythm in Poetry

  2. Audible Sounds • Onomatopoeia (16) – use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes • Quack, buzz, rattle, bang, squeak, bowwow, burp, choo-choo • Alliteration (14) – repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words • “Sally sold sea shells at the sea shore” • Assonance (14) – repetition of the same vowel sound in nearby words. Vowel sounds are usually part of the naturally stressed syllable of a word. • asleep under a tree • Time and tide • haunt and awesome • each evening

  3. Audible Sounds • Euphony (16) – lines that are musically pleasant to the ear and smooth • Cacophony (14) – lines that are discordant and difficult to pronounce

  4. Audible Sounds “Player Piano” by John Updike My stick fingers click with a snicker And, chuckling, they knuckle the keys; Light footed, my steel feelers flicker And pluck from these keys melodies. My paper can caper; abandon Is broadcast by dint of my din, And no man or band has a hand in The tones I turn on from within. At times I'm a jumble of rumbles, At others I'm light like the moon, But never my numb plunker fumbles, Misstrumsme, or tries a new tune.

  5. Audible Sounds “Blackberry Eating” by Galway Kinnell I love to go out in late Septemberamong the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberriesto eat blackberries for breakfast,the stalks very prickly, a penaltythey earn for knowing the black artof blackberry-making; and as I stand among themlifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berriesfall almost unbidden to my tongue,as words sometimes do, certain peculiar wordslike strengths or squinched,many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps,which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge wellin the silent, startled, icy, black languageof blackberry -- eating in late September.

  6. Rhyme • Rhyme (26) – two or more words or phrases that repeat the same sounds • Sound Rhymes – vain, reign, rain • Eye rhymes – bough, cough, or brow, blow • EndRhyme (25) – rhyme that comes at the end of a line of poetry (most common) • Internalrhyme (26) – rhymed words within a line of poetry • “Diving and gliding and sliding” – from “The Cataract of Lodore”

  7. Rhyme • Masculine Rhyme (add) – the rhyming of single-syllable words - glade and shade • Feminine Rhyme (add) – the rhyming of two words with a rhymed stressed syllable followed by one or more rhymed unstressed syllables • Butter, clutter; gratitude, attitude; quivering, shivering • Exact Rhyme – rhymed words that share the same stressed vowel sounds, as well as any sounds that follow the vowel. • Near Rhyme (26) - sounds are almost, but not quite exactly alike. There are many kinds. Also called off rhyme, slant rhyme, and approximate rhyme • Consonance (15) – identical consonant sounds preceded by a different vowel sound. • Home, same; worth, breath; trophy, daffy.

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