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POETRY REVIEW

POETRY REVIEW RHYTHM is… A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. Poets use rhythm to: bring out the musical quality of

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POETRY REVIEW1PART ONE: RHYTHM AND SOUND DEVICES

RHYTHM isA pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. Poets use rhythm to: bring out the musical quality of languageEmphasize ideasCreate moodsUnify worksHeighten emotional responses3What Creates Rhythm in Poetry?Devices such asAlliterationAssonanceConsonanceRepetitionRhyme

AlliterationRepetition of initial (first) consonant sound like lake water lapping5AssonanceRepetition of vowel sounds

Poor vaunt of life indeed, Were man but formed to feed On joy, to solely seek and find and feast

--Robert Browning, Rabbi Ben Ezra6Late August was a pressure drop, rain, a sob in the bodyBruce Smith, ObbligatoConsonance The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in the word.Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.--Robert Browning"All mammals named Sam are clammy" 8RepetitionAnd not one will know of the war, not oneWill care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor treeIf mankind perished utterly.PART TWO: METER

10METERSome common types of METER includeIambicTrochaicAnapesticDactylic

Foot= measurement of rhythmIamb= smallest foot, RisingU / unstressed & stressed 5 iambs= u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ Remember: rhythm is counted out in syllablesFoot= measurement of rhythmIamb= smallest foot, RisingU / unstressed & stressed 5 iambs= u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ Remember: rhythm is counted out in syllablesStopping by Woods on a Snowy Eveningby Robert FrostWhose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer (strange)To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep. 15PART THREE: RHYMEWords that have identical end sounds bad sadI will not eat green eggs and ham,I will not eat themSAM I AM!

Words can have different letters but still rhyme:Grocer/closer

End Rhyme 17Slant Rhyme Close, but not exact rhymeFor example: Low, prow

RHYMEInternalInternal rhyme is rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry

the grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother

Rhyme SchemeThe pattern of end rhymes in a poem.Ex: a a b b OR a b a b OR a b c c b a20PART FOUR: TYPES OF VERSERhymed VerseVerse with both rhyme and meter

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Robert Frost

22Blank Verse Poetry that has METER but does not have RHYME.

Shakespeare used blank verse when he wrote his plays in iambic pentameter:

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus , and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves, dishonorable graves. 23Free VersePoetry not written in regular rhyme pattern or meter Dominant form in contemporary (modern) poetry

24METAPHOR IN POETRYMetaphorDirect comparison of unlike objects All the worlds a stage.She had too much on her plate.

26Extended MetaphorA metaphor that is carried throughout a piece of literature. Example: the crystal stair in Langston Hughes Mother to Son.

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Langston Hughes' Mother to Son Well, son, I'll tell you:Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.It's had tacks in it,And splinters,And boards torn up,And places with no carpet on the floor -Bare.But all the timeI'se been a-climbin' on,And reachin' landin's,And turnin' corners,And sometimes goin' in the darkWhere there ain't been no light.So boy, don't you turn back.Don't you set down on the steps'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.Don't you fall now --For I'se still goin', honey,I'se still climbin',And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

In this poem, Hughes writes about a mother speaking to her son about life's experiences. He uses the metaphor of a crystal stair. A metaphor that has been used so much that it doesnt have an impact anymore. Dead Metaphor

The EndThats a wrapThe fat lady has sungLets put this puppy to bed!