Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. -- Plato

Types of Rhyme

Slant Rhyme (n): When the end words of two lines of poetry share a similar sound but do not “rhyme” in the traditional sense (known as “full” or perfect rhyme).

Near Rhyme

Sam Am Ham

Seen/been

Internal rhyme-an individual line of poetry contains one or more words that rhyme.

Use for emphasis or additional unity

Rhyme Scheme– the pattern of rhyming words within a given stanza or poem; identified with a letter of the alphabet. Ask: Is rhyme scheme germane to the effect or meaning of a poem.

Onomatopoeia- murmur – WHY USE IT?

Use of RepetitionAlliteration-repetition of initial sounds; intensify effects, add weight to an idea, makes verse easier to remember.

Assonance- repetition of similar vowel sounds; can be used to create near, or slant, rhyme. EX: earth and hearth

Consonance–repetition of consonants within a line or at the end of words. Used to create subtle harmonies. Ex: "some mammals are clammy“; odds and ends; struts and frets; a.k.a. Dissonance, Half rhyme, andOblique Rhyme (or Slant Rhyme) --rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.

Example: The plate was shapely and well-made.

James Thomson's verse "Come…dragging the lazy languid line along."

Meter and Rhythm

Iambic Pentameter = 5 iambs per line or 10 syllables. SHAKESPEARE

Cute little song

Irene is an iambTanya is a trocheeSue-Ann is a spondeeDeborah is a dactylAntoinette is an anapest

Roughly 90% of poems in English use iamb

Scansion. (uh, goot gawd) the process of analyzing meterWhat is it good for? Meter contributes to the poem’s meaning, structure, tone, and effect

Caesura, Enjambment, End-Stop

It’s an internal pause—usually indicated by a period, semicolon, dash, or other punctuation.

CLASS

End-Stopped

Enjambment, often called run-on, is indicated by an absence of punctuation and eliminates the need for pause. Don’t stop reading until you see punctuation!

Free Verse While Ezra Pound is largely credited with starting the free verse poetry movement that created more relaxed style requirements and eliminated the wide-spread use of formal poetry, there are still plenty of aficionados out there who firmly believe that all poetry should rhyme. These are ten of the reasons they use to support their argument, and reasons why some believe that rhyming poetry is far superior to its free-verse brethren.

Do poems have to rhyme? Is Free Verse really poetry?

Is "The Red Wheelbarrow" a poem?

Blank Verse