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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).

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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