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Hear the Music
Make It Rhyme
Rhythm and MeterFree Verse
Sound Effects
Practice
The Sounds of Poetry
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Poetrys musical quality makes it different fromother forms of literature. A good poem practicallysings.
To achieve this musical
effect, poets use
rhyme
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rhythm
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Rhymerepetition of the sound of the stressedvowel and any sounds that follow it in words thatare close together in a poem.
And haply a bell with a luring call
Summoned their feet to tread
Midst the cruel rocks, where the deep pitfall
And the lurking snare are spread.from Black Sheep by Richard Burton
Modern Poetry
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Listen to the poem and then identify the rhymes.
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In an exact rhyme, allsounds from thestressed vowel to theend of the word are
repeated.
immersionconversionpleasuretreasuresphererevere
In an approximaterhyme, some soundsare repeated, but thewords are not exact
echoes of each other.
regularlyFebruarylandingscanningsonggone
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Rhymes usually occur at the ends of lines. Thistype of rhyme is called end rhyme.
Golden pulse grew on the shore,
Ferns along the hill,
And the red cliff roses bore
Bees to drink their fill;
from Golden Purse by John Myers OHara
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When rhyme occurs within a line, it is calledinternal rhyme.
The Sun came up upon the left,
Out of the sea came he!
And he shone bright, and on the right
Went down into the sea.
from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A regular pattern of end rhyme, or rhymescheme, defines the shape of a poem and holds ittogether.
Apple-green west and an orange bar,And the crystal eye of a lone, one star . . .
And, Child, take the shears and cut what you will,
Frost to-nightso clear and dead-still.
from Frost To-Night by Edith M. Thomas
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Find the endrhymes in thisexcerpt,includingapproximate
rhymes.
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Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?Allthat we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
from A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
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Find theinternal rhymesin this excerpt,includingapproximate
rhymes.
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Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?Allthat we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
from A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
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Rhythmmusical quality based on repetition.
A common form of rhythm is meter, a regularpattern of stressed and unstressed syllables ineach line.
Rhythm and Meter
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high oer vales and hills
from I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
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Scanning a Poems Meter
When you analyze a poem to show its meter, youare scanning the poem. Scanning is a way oftaking a poem apart to see how the poet has
created its music.
Stressed syllables are marked with the symbol().
Unstressed syllables are marked the symbol().
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Iambunstressed syllable followed by a stressedsyllable.
There are several different kinds of metrical feet.
Footmetrical unit, usually consisting of onestressed syllable and one or more unstressedsyllables.
His hair is crisp, and black, and long,from The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Which syllablesare stressed inthe first twolines?
Now, scan therest of theexcerpt. What isthe predominant
type of foot?
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Our little house upon the hill
In summer time strange voices fill;
With ceaseless rustle of the leaves,
And birds that twitter in the eaves,
And all the vines entangled so
The village lights no longer show.
from Our Little House by Thomas Walsh
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Notice that free verse sounds similar to prose or
to everyday spoken language.
Free versepoetry that does not follow a regularpattern of rhyme and meter.
This poetry gets bored of being alone,
It wants to go outdoors to chew on the winds,to fill its commas with the keels of rowboats. . . .from Living Poetry by Hugo Margenat
Free Verse
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I am a copper wire slung in the air,
Slim against the sun I make not even a clear line of
shadow.
Night and day I keep singinghumming and
thrumming:
from Under a Telephone Pole by Carl Sandburg
Onomatopoeiause of words that sound like
what they mean.
In addition to rhythm and rhyme, poets also useonomatopoeia, alliteration, and assonance togive their poems a musical quality.
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Alliterationrepetition of the same consonantsound in several words, usually at the beginningsof the words.
A bird sang sweet and strongIn the top of the highest tree.
He said, I pour out my heart in song
For the summer that soon shall be.
from Spring Song by George William Curtis
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Assonancerepetition of the same vowel soundin several words.
The baby moon, a canoe, a silver papoose canoe,
sails and sails in the Indian west.A ring of silver foxes, a mist of silver foxes,
sit and sit around the Indian moon.from Early Moon by Carl Sandburg
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Find an exampleof each of type ofsound effect:
Alliteration
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
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Black riders came from the seaby Stephen Crane
Black riders came from the sea.
There was clang and clang of
spear and shield,
And clash and clash of roof and
heel,
Wild shouts and the wave of hair
In the rush upon the wind:
Thus the ride of Sin.
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Find elements of poetry in the real world. List ten names. Identify the stressed and unstressed
syllables. What tunes do the names make?
Find political slogans that use rhyme andalliteration.
Think of two exact rhymes and two approximaterhymes for ocean, wash, warm, beard, andpower.
Describe the following scenes, usingonomatopoeia:
a rainy, windy night
a cat eating dry cat food
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