Rhythm and Meter and Sound

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Rhythm and Meter and Sound
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Rhythm

• Any regularly recurrent flow of motion or sound
• The pattern of rise and fall in speech
• Read aloud to find it

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Meter

• A regularized rhythmic pattern
• Poetry Meter music beat
• Writing with meter makes an emotional impact on
  readers and listeners

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Meter

• Stressed and unstressed syllables
• Unstressed are marked above the syllable with
• Stressed are marked above the syllable
• with /

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Meter

• Free Verse not controlled by any definite
  metrical pattern or rhyme, though it might make
  use of various rhythms and use some rhyme.
• Imagists (1900s)

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Meter

• Foot a metrical unit
• Consists of at least one stressed syllable and
  one or more unstressed
• Five that are common in English

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Meter

• Iamb an unaccented syllable followed by an
  accented syllable
• I Must go down
• In English, Iambs are natural in speech
• Iambic pentameter five iambs in each line
• Blank verse five iambs in each line, unrhymed
  (Shakespeare)

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Meter

• Trochee stressed unstressed
• Anapest 2 unstressed, one stressed
• Dactyl one stressed, 2 unstressed
• Spondee 2 stressed

Double Understand Excellent Football
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Meter

• How to find it?
• Read the poem out loud
• a few times.
• You will hear the meter (dont force it, just
  read)

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Structure

• The form or pattern a poet chooses for the
  arrangement of thoughts.

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Stanza

• Any group of related lines that forms a division
  of a poem (like a paragraph in prose)
• Stanzaic form- a structure that uses certain
  types of stanzas to create a form

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Types of Stanzas

• Couplet- 2 lines
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• Quatrain- 4 lines
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• Sestet- 6 lines
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• Octave- 8 lines
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Sonnet

• A fixed form of 14 lines, usually written in
  iambic pentameter
• Iambic pentameter each line has 10 syllable,
  with 5 iambs (unstressed, stressed).

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Sonnet

• The English Sonnet (Shakespearean)
• Three quatrains, followed by a couplet
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Sonnet

• The Italian Sonnet (Petrarchan)
• An octave of eight lines, a sestet of six.
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Rhyme

• End rhyme at the end of a line
• Internal rhyme within a line
• Exact rhyme sounds exactly the same cat/mat,
  verging/merging
• Approximate rhyme soundsclose, but not exact
  mystery/master, washes/rushes, fellow/follow

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Sound

• Alliteration Repetition of consonant sounds
• I have stood still and stopped the sound of
  feet -Frost
• Assonance repetition of vowel sounds
• Onomatopoeia words that sound like what they
  mean
• Buzz, crackle, pop

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Rhythm, meter, sound

• Read
• Sea Fever 506-507
• Ex-Basketball Player 518-520
• Remember 527-529
• We Real Cool 531-533
• Jazz Fantasia 535-537

• Do
• 508 7-10
• 524 3, 7
• 530 1, 8
• 534 5, 6, 7
• 538 3, 4