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TODAY’S NEWS 12-9-15

TODAY’S NEWS 12-9-15. ssr – poetry terms quiz rhythm and meter in poetry sonnets – Shakespearian, Spenserian, Petrarchan (Italian). Rhythm and Meter in English Poetry

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TODAY’S NEWS 12-9-15

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  1. TODAY’S NEWS 12-9-15 • ssr – poetry terms quiz • rhythm and meter in poetry • sonnets – Shakespearian, Spenserian, Petrarchan (Italian)

  2. Rhythm and Meter in English Poetry • English poetry employs four basic rhythms of varying stressed (/) and unstressed (u) syllables. The meters are iambs, trochees, anapests and dactyls. In this paper the stressed syllables are marked in boldface type rather than the traditional "/" and "u." Each unit of rhythm is called a "foot" of poetry. • The meters with two-syllable feet are • IAMBIC (u /) : That time of year thou mayst in me behold • TROCHAIC (/ u): Tell me not in mournful numbers, Twinkle, Twinkle, little star • Meters with three-syllable feet are • ANAPESTIC (u u /): And the sound of a voice that is still • DACTYLIC (/ u u): This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlock (a trochee replaces the final dactyl) • Each line of a poem contains a certain number of feet of iambs, trochees, dactyls or anapests. A line of one foot is a monometer, 2 feet is a dimeter, and so on--trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5), hexameter (6), heptameter (7), and octameter (8). The number of syllables in a line varies therefore according to the meter. A good example of trochaic monometer, for example, is this poem entitled "Fleas": Adam / Had’em • Try your hand at unlocking the rhythm pattern of the following stanzas of poetry that you have already read. Mark the syllables as stressed (/) or unstressed (u) and see if you can label the type of feet and their pattern within each line.

  3. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. 1 Tyger! Tyger! burning bright 2 In the forests of the night, 3 What immortal hand or eye 4 Could frame thy fearful symmetry The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free ; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.

  4. Sonnet 29   When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,   I all alone beweep my outcast state*, *condition   And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless* cries, *futile; useless  And look upon myself and curse my fate,   Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,   Featured like him*, like him with friends possessed, *with his features; handsome  Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope*, *intelligence  With what I most enjoy contented least,   Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,   Haply I think on thee, and then my state,   Like to the lark* at break of day arising *English skylark; noted for its   From sullen earth sings hymns at heaven's gate, beautiful song    For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,     That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Number of lines - 14 2. Rhyme scheme - ABAB CDCD EFEF GG 3. Rhythm pattern - Iambic Pentameter 4. Description of types of stanzas – 3 quatrains – 1 couplet 5. Subject – Speaker feels sorry for himself and what he doesn’t have until he thinks about his love.

  5. Sonnet 30 My love is like to ice, and I to fire; How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolv'd through my so-hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat*? *plead with Or how comes it that my exceeding heat Is not delayed by her heart frozen cold; But that I burn much more in boiling sweat, And feel my flames augmented manifold*? *greatly increased What more miraculous thing may be told That fire which all things melts, should harden ice: And ice which is congealed* with senseless cold, *solidified Should kindle fire by wonderful device? Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind*. *nature Number of lines - 14 2. Rhyme scheme – ABAB BCBC CDCD EE 3. Rhythm pattern – Iambic Pentameter 4. Description of types of stanzas – 3 quatrains – 1 couplet 5. Subject of poem – His love rejects him and he grows more passionate – This the power of love – it can do the unexpected

  6. Sonnet 169 Rapt* in the one fond thought that makes me stay *deeply absorbed from other men and walk this world alone, sometimes I have escaped myself and flown to seek the very one that I should flee; So fair and fell* I see her passing by *cruel that the soul trembles to take flight again, so many armed sighs are in her train* *a group of people following This lovely foe to Love himself and me! in attendance And yet, upon that high and clouded brow I seem to see a ray of pity shine, Shedding some light across the grieving heart; so I call back my soul, and when I vow at last to tell her of my hidden pain, I have so much to say I dare not start. Number of lines - 14 Rhyme scheme – ABBACDDC EFGEFG (some slant rhyme) Rhythm pattern – Iambic Pentameter 4. Description of types of stanzas – 1 Octave – 1 Sestet 5. Subject of poem – He’s in love with one who doesn’t love him (unrequited love) – He’s afraid to share his pain – Vacillates between telling or not telling her.

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