Rhyme Scheme and Meter

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Rhyme Scheme and Meter

• Poetry Terms

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rhyme scheme

• repetition of accented vowels sounds and all
  sounds following them in words that are close
  together in a poem

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rhyme scheme

• Lets practice with this Robert Frost poem
• http//www.poemhunter.com/poem/fire-and-ice/

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The Line

• Lets practice with this Robert Frost poem
• http//www.poemhunter.com/poem/fire-and-ice/

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scansion

• It is the analysis of the rhyme and meter of a
  poem. It should tie in to the poems overall
  meaning.

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Foot

• It is the basic building block of poetry.

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Foot

• It is a pattern of syllables. Usually, one
  stressed syllable and one or more unstressed
  syllables (exceptions exist).

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Foot

• The pattern of feet create the meter of a poem.

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Meter

• It is the pattern of beats or accents.
  Unstressed U Stressed /

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iamb (iambic)

• An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
  syllable

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iamb (iambic)

• forget
• deceive
• The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls.

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trochee (trochaic)

• A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed
  syllable

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trochee (trochaic)

• listen
• lonely
• Double, double, toil and trouble

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anapest (anapestic)

• Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed
  syllable

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anapest (anapestic)

• obvious
• regular
• For the moon never beams without bring-ing me
  dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

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dactyl (dactylic)

• One stressed syllable followed by two unstressed
  syllables

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dactyl (dactylic)

• excellent
• temperate
• you murdering ministers...

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spondee (spondaic)

• Two stressed syllables

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spondee (spondaic)

• downtown
• shoeshine
• ROCKS, CAVES LAKES, FENS BOGS, DENS and
  SHADES of DEATH

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pyrrhic

• Two unstressed syllables

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pyrrhic

• and the
• of the
• Be near me when my light is low,    When the
  blood creeps and the nerves prick    And tingle
  and the heart is sick,And all the wheels of
  Being slow.

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The Line

• The poetic line is measured by the number of feet
  it contains.

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The Line

• 1 foot Monometer
• 2 feet Dimeter
• 3 feet Trimeter
• 4 feet Tetrameter
• 5 feet Pentameter

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The Line

• 6 feet Hexameter
• 7 feet Heptameter
• 8 feet Octameter
• 9 feet Nonometer
• 10 feet Decameter

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The Stanza

• 1 line...a line
• 2 lines.a couplet
• 3 lines.tercet
• 4 lines.quatrain
• 5 lines.cinquain
• 6 lines.sestet
• 7 lines.septet
• 8 lines.octave

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Write out the poetic markings for

• Dactylic trimeter
• Anapestic dimeter
• Spondaic monometer
• Trochaic tetrameter

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Identify the meter of each line

• And today the Great Yertle, that Marvelous he
• Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see