4. rhythm and rhyme
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lesson 4 year 7 poetry unitTRANSCRIPT
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Getting Knowledge Ready
What do we already know about
Rhythm & Rhyme in poetry?
What do you think of what you
hear/see these words.
Rhythm
Rhyme
Meter
Foot
Caesura
Vocabulary
Learning Intention Success Criteria
To develop an awareness of the importance of rhythm and rhyme in poetry.
I will contribute to discussion about rhythm and rhyme in poetry.
I will practice identifying and applying my growing knowledge of rhythm and rhyme.
What Am I Learning Today?
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Rhythm
Rhythm is all about sound.
Can be made by a number of things –
Repeated phrases
Syllables
Pauses
And
Rhyme
Rhythm
It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of…
Rhythm
Meter is poem's underlying structure
—the rhythm beneath the words in each line.
Does the poem go daDUM daDUM daDUM?
Does it go dadaDUM? How about daDUMda
daDUMda? Answer that question and you've got
the poem's meter.
MET
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Rhythm
Here is an example of stressed & unstressed
syllables (meter) in a well known nursery rhyme.
MET
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Rhythm
You can create pauses in a lot of ways,
but the most obvious is to use punctuation like
a period, comma, or semicolon.
So if you see one of those smack bang in the middle of a
line of poetry, chances are you're looking at a caesura
(strong pause).
CAESU
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A FANCY WORD FOR A
STRONG PAUSE
WITHIN
A SINGLE LINE. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary."
“The rain set early in tonight,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,
And its worst to vex the lake:
I listened with heart fit to break.
PAUSE CREATE DRAMA, EMPHASIZE
FEELINGS, AND ADD MEANING.
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This is the rime you
may be more familiar
with!
These words have the
same spelling pattern –
most commonly at the
end of each word.
EXAMPLE
Cat – Bat – Mat – Sat
SO… of course the rime!!
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This is the rhyme that is
impressive and proves
to the reader you really
know your stuff!
These words sounds the
same but are spelt
differently.
EXAMPLE
Flew – Shoe – Glue
Internal Rhyme
- on the inside.
External
Rhyme
- on the outside.
Rhyme
happens when two
words rhyme inside the
same line.
Internal Rhyme
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are
heavy. There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's
spaghetti.
You know who's really awesome at internal rhyme? Rappers.
happens when two
words rhyme on the
outside of two or more
lines.
External Rhyme
STRUCTURED external
rhyme
I like to play by the sea
It is very fun for me
The waves are so much fun
The sea is where I want to be
Rhyme
As long as two rhyme you can
have any scheme you like.
Think of one question
you know the answer to
and write this is the
back of your book
(question & answer).
Beat the Bell
Review
Think of one question
you do not know the
answer to and write this
is the back of your book.
Once you have your questions we
can play!Game starter…
Is rhyme essential in poetry?
http://www.writingrhymeandmeter.com/?page_id=3753