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POETRY

POETRY. RHYTHM & METER SOUND & MEANING. RHYTHM & METER. Rhythm: any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound; the alternation between accented & unaccented syllables Meter: the pattern of syllables or the arrangement of accents Verse: metrical language Prose: non-metrical language.

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POETRY

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  1. POETRY RHYTHM & METER SOUND & MEANING

  2. RHYTHM & METER • Rhythm: any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound; the alternation between accented & unaccented syllables • Meter: the pattern of syllables or the arrangement of accents • Verse: metrical language • Prose: non-metrical language

  3. RHYTHM & METER • Accents appear in the dictionary • Foot = basic metrical unit; usually consists of one accented plus one or two unaccented syllables • Mark for accented syllables = / • Mark for unaccented syllables = u • Scansion = the process of measuring verse • Stanza: a group of lines whose metrical pattern is repeated throughout a poem

  4. TYPES OF METRICAL FEET • Iamb/Iambic: in-ter • Trochee/Trochaic: en-ter • Anapest/Anapestic: in-ter-vene • Dactyl/Dactylic: en-ter-prise • Spondee/Spondaic: true blue

  5. Prosody • The measure in which poems are written; the study of versification, particularly as it encompasses meter,rhyme, rhythm, and stanzaic form. • Types: • Counted lines (regular beat) • Free verse (irregular beat)

  6. SOUND & MEANING Pease porridge hot, Pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot Nine days old.

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  10. SOUND & MEANING • Sound reinforces meaning and intensifies communication • Purpose of poets is to convey not sounds but meaning or experience through sounds

  11. SOUND & MEANING: phonetic intensives • fl- = moving light (flame, flare, flash, flicker, flimmer) • gl- = unmoving light (glare, gleam, glint, glow, glisten) • sl- = smoothly wet (slippery, slick, slide, slime, slop, slosh, slobber, slushy) • st- = strength (staunch, stalwart, stout sturdy, stable, steady, stocky stern, strong, stubborn, steel) • short -i- = smallness (inch, imp, thin, slim, little, it, chip, sliver) • long -o- = melancholy or sorrow (moan, groan, woe, mourn, forlorn, toll, doom, gloom, moody) • Final –are = big light or noise (flare, glare, stare, blare) • medial –att = particled movement (spatter, scatter, shatter, chatter, rattle) • final –er and –le = repetition (glitter, flutter, shimmer, whisper, jabber, chatter, clatter, sputter, flicker, twitter, mutter, ripple, bubble, twinkle, sparkle, jiggle)

  12. Sound and Meaning: • Onomatopoeia: the use of words, which, at least supposedly, sound like what they mean, such as: HISS SNAP BANG

  13. SOUND & MEANING • Euphony: smooth and pleasant sounding syllables • Cacophony: rough and harsh sounding

  14. EXAMPLES • All day the fleeing crows croak hoarsely over the snow. • All day the out-cast crows croak hoarsely across the whiteness. • It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. • It is the lark that warbles out of tune In harsh discordant tones with doleful flats.

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