Poetry

1. Poetry December 2010

2. Rhyme Oxymoron Sestina Poetry

3. True, full or perfect rhyme – sounding alike, though possibly looking different Example: “Lady Lazarus” by Sylvia Plath I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air. Eye or sight rhyme – looking the same, sounding different Example: “The Prodigal Son” by Edwin Arlington Robinson For, unless ways are changing here at home, You might not have it if I had not come. Rhyme

4. Consonant rhyme (slant rhyme: rhyme that neither looks nor sounds exact) – final consonant the same, vowel different Example: “I See the Boys of Summer” by Dylan Thomas There, in his night, the black-tongued bells The sleepy man of winter pulls More examples– floods/tides, threads/voids, mothers/weathers Rhyme Continued

5. An expression that combines opposite, contradictory qualities, seemingly nonsensical but capturing some psychological or emotional extreme of ambivalence Example: Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet “Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!” Oxymoron

6. A fixed form, in which six end-words are repeated in an interwoven order through six stanzas and in a final three-long envoi(which contains all six of those words) Sestina

7. After the first stanza establishes a sestina’s six end-words, each of the following stanzas rearranges the previous stanza’s end-words according to a prescribed numerical order: 6, 1, 5, 2, 4, 3 Sestina