Rhythm: pattern of sound created by stressed/unstressed syllables, pauses, line lengths, rhyme,...
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Rhythm and Meter Rhythm : pattern of sound created by stressed/unstressed syllables, pauses, line lengths, rhyme, repetition, etc. If a poem’s rhythm is structured into a recurrence of regular—that is, approximately equal—units, we call it meter (from the Greek word for “measure”). (The Norton Anthology of Poetry)
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Rhythm and Meter
Rhythm: pattern of sound created by stressed/unstressed syllables, pauses, line lengths, rhyme, repetition, etc.
If a poem’s rhythm is structured into a recurrence of regular—that is, approximately equal—units, we call it meter (from the Greek word for “measure”).
(The Norton Anthology of Poetry)
On your white board, write…
Name of metrical foot Noun Unstressed/stressed syllables (use
symbols) Purpose/effect Example
Mete
r
Metric
al F
eet
Lin
e L
en
gth
s
1. Iambic2. Trochaic3. Anapestic4. Dactylic5. Spondaic6. Pyrrhic
1. Monometer2. Dimeter3. Trimeter4. Tetrameter5. Pentameter6. Hexameter7. Heptameter8. Octameter
What type of meter does the poem use?
How many metrical feet are in each line?
The Shakespearean Sonnet
As a group, arrange the lines of poetry from your envelope in their original form.
A Shakespearean sonnet follows these rules: Three quatrains and one couplet Rhyme Scheme: ABAB-CDCD-EFEF-GG Meter: Iambic pentameter
Sonnet 29 By William Shakespeare
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless criesAnd look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings.
