Rhyme and Meter in Poetry Another Note Taking Adventure.
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Transcript of Rhyme and Meter in Poetry Another Note Taking Adventure.
Rhyme Scheme
• Some poems and poem types follow a rhythmic pattern called a rhyme scheme. Often, this occurs in the last word in each line of a stanza.
Rhyme Scheme example #1
• Simple
From Dream-Land
By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named Night
On a black throne reign upright.
~Poe, Edgar Allen
Rhyme Scheme
A
A
B
B
Rhyme Scheme Example #2
• More Complex
From The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
With conquering limbs astride from land to land
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
~Lazarus, Emma
• Rhyme Scheme
A
B
B
A
Do Now
• Read I Wandered As Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth and In Between by P. Lord. Map out the rhyme schemes for each poem. Write the rhyme scheme in your journals.
Types of Rhyme
Common Rhyme: (bat, hat) (Hair, Flair) (Portray, Convey)
Internal Rhyme: These are rhymes within a line of poetry.
Internal Rhyme Example
From The Raven
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary AA
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- B
While I nodded, nearly napping, Suddenly there came a tapping, CC
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. CCB
~Poe, Edgar Allen
Types of Rhyme
Slant Rhyme: These are near rhymes used liberally or when no common rhyme can be formed.
Slant Rhyme Examples
• What is a slant rhyme for Orange … Door Hinge
Vacuum …
Ginger Bread…
Finish these Typhoid…
Hurricane…
Garbage…
Slant Rhyme Examples #2
• We were camped on the plains at the head of the Cimarron When along came a stranger who stopped to arger some. He looked so very foolish that we began to look around, We thought he was a greenhorn that had just ’scaped from town.
• Spanish is the lovin’ tongue, Soft as music, light as spray. ’Twas a girl I learnt it from Livin’ down Sonora way. I don’t look much like a lover, Yet I say her love words over Often when I’m all alone— “Mi amor, mi corazon.”
Homework
• Create a rhyme scheme with at least four sets of rhymes. Write a poem using that rhyme scheme. This may be on any subject.
• Extra challenge: Try to incorporate all three types of rhyme in this poem.
Meter
• Meter in poetry is like a drumbeat in a song. It is the up and down rhythm created by syllables in a line of poetry.
Example of Meter
• Ex: Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers
• Question: Do you hear the up and down rhythm?
Do Now
• Write “Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.” Draw an up arrow over where the meter/stress goes up and a down arrow below where it goes down.
Finished Example
• Each arrow represents a syllable. There are 12 syllables altogether.
• The up arrow represents a “stressed” syllable and the down arrow an “unstressed syllable. Together they are called a “trochee”.
• The opposite of a trochee is an “iamb”
Example of what a trochee look like.
• Poets represent stressed and unstressed syllables like this.
Stress
Unstress
Shakespeare and Iambs
• Shakespeare is famous for using Iambs in his poetry.
• He used Iambic Pentameter almost exclusively.
• So what is Iambic pentameter?
• Lets break it down.
Iambic pentameter
• An iamb is an unstressed and a stressed syllable. Penta (like Pentagon) means five and meter is the rhythm. So Iambic pentameter means there will be five iambs per line of poetry (or 10 syllables).
Syllabic Rhyme
• Some poets use meter as a form of rhyme. This helps trick the mind into anticipating the length of the next line of poetry.
Example of Syllabic rhyme• MY SOUL IS DARKMy soul is dark – Oh! quickly string And ach’d in sleepless silence long;
The harp I yet can brook to hear; And now ‘tis doom’d to know the worst,
And let thy gentle fingers fling And break at once – or yield to song.
Its melting murmurs o’er mine ear.
If in this heart a hope be dear, ~Lord Byron (1815)
That sound shall charm it forth again:
If in these eyes there lurk a tear, (All 8 Syllable Lines)
‘Twill flow, and cease to burn my brain.
But bid the strains be wild and deep,
Nor let thy notes of joy be first:
I tell thee, minstrel, I must weep,
Or else this heavy heart will burst;
For it hath been by sorrow nursed,
Do Now
• Read I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud and In Between again, and find out what type of syllabic rhyme is used.