2. Sound
Rhyme
Matching of sounds in two or more words
End Rhyme
○ Corresponding sounds at the end of lines
Internal Rhyme
○ Corresponding sounds occur within the lines
3. From “The Raven”
by Edgar Allan Poe
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered
weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten
lore --While I nodded nearly napping, suddenly there came
a tapping,
As some one gently tapping, rapping at my chamber
door.
“ „Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my
chamber door --Only this and nothing more.”
4.
Perfect/Exact Rhyme
Rhyming words share corresponding sounds
and stresses, similar number of syllables
“Weary” and “dreary”; “lore” and “door”
Imperfect/Approximate/Slant Rhyme
“dizzy” and “easy”
Feminine Rhyme
Final syllable of a rhymed word is
unstressed
Masculine Rhyme
Final syllable of rhymed word is stressed
5. Rhythm and Meter
Rhythm
Regular occurrence of accent or stress in
poem or song
“JACK and JILL went UP the HILL”
Meter
Measure or patterned count of a line
Count of stresses in a poem‟s rhythm
6. Meter
Foot
Unit of poetic meter
Iambic
○ iamb
○ Unstressed syllable followed by an accented one
○ “preVENT” “conTAIN”
Trochaic
○ Trochee
○ Accented syllable followed by unaccented one
○ “FOOTball” “LANGuage”
7.
Foot
Anapestic
○ Anapest
○ Two unaccented syllables followed by an
accented one
○ “com-pre-HEND”
Dactylic
○ Dactyl
○ Accented syllable followed by two unaccented
ones
○ “CHEER-ful-ly”
8.
Foot
Spondee
○ Two accented syllables together
○ “KNICK-KNACK”
Pyrrhic
○ Two unaccented syllables
○ “of the”
Both can serve as the subsitute feet for
iambic and trochaic feet
Cannot be the metrical norm for a poem
9.
Rising Meter
Move from unaccented to accented
Iambic and anapestic
Falling Meter
Move from accented to unaccented
Dactylic and trochaic
10. Lines of Poetry
Named based on numbers of feet in the
line
Tetrameter, pentameter, monometer, etc.
12. Number of Feet Per Line
One foot
Monometer
Two feet
Dimeter
Three feet
Trimeter
Four feet
Tetrameter
Five feet
Pentameter
Six feet
Hexameter
Seven feet
Heptameter
Eight feet
octameter
13.
Enjambed
Run-on lines that may confuse the
observation of meter and rhythm
Metrical Variation
Change in meter to avoid monotony