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POETRY. Poetry is the most musical of all literary forms. Rhythm. Rhythm is the musical pattern or sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables. Rhythm occurs in all language, written and spoken, but is particularly important in poetry. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
POETRY
Poetry is the most musical of all literary
forms.
Rhythm
• Rhythm is the musical pattern or sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables.
• Rhythm occurs in all language, written and spoken, but is particularly important in poetry.
As you read the following excerpt from “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” by Robert Browning, listen to the rhythm of the poem.
“Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats,Brown rats, black rats, gray rats,tawny rats,Grave old plodders, brave young friskers,Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins,Cocking tails and prickling whiskers”
FORM – the structure of a poem
• Most poems have regular groups of lines called STANZAS
DON’T JUDGEDon't judge people you hardly know.You don't know what their days have been like.You don't know what their lives have been like.Don't judge.
Don't judge someone who seemsAs if she's overreacting.You don't know if she's lost someoneShe loved dearlyOr if her parents are getting a divorceOr fighting over nothing.Don't judge.
Don't judge someone who's different.He's probably one of the nicest people you'll know.Or the funniest.Or the smartest.Take the time to get to know people.Walk with them.Run with them.Share their triumphs and their sorrows.Maybe they don't dance through lifeAs you thought.Don't judge. by Lealia Xiong
Other poems are formed with strict syllable counts like the ancient
Japanese haiku with its 5-7-5 pattern.
HAIKU by Basho
An old silent pond…A frog jumps into the pond, Splash! Silence again
RHYMEThe repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds flowing from themTrouble and bubble are rhymes, as are clown and noun.
Rhymes in poetry help create rhythm and lend a songlike quality to a poem. They also emphasize ideas, provide humor, and aid memory.
END RHYMES are rhymes at the end ofa line.
INTERNAL RHYMES are rhymes within lines.
“In days of old when knights caught coldThey were not quickly cured.No aspirin pill would check the illWhich had to be endured.”
- David Daiches
RHYME SCHEME -the pattern of rhyming sounds at the end lines in a poem.
Hickory, dickory dock. aThe mouse ran up the clock. aThe clock struck one. bThe mouse ran down. cHickory, dickory dock a
The Yogurt Flies Straight from My Brother(My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)
The yogurt flies straight from my brother.
The peaches zoom toward me from sis.
When she gets home, I bet my mother
Says we shouldn’t food fight like this!
Food fight! Food fight!
There’s food on the counters and chairs!
Food fight! Food fight!
There’s tons of meat loaf in my hair!
Cranky Poodle (Yankee Doodle)
Cranky Poodle in my homeClawing, scratching, howling,Scaring people, scaring cats,Unrolling paper toweling.
Cranky Poodle drives me nutsMost days I can’t bear it.Wish my folks would trade her for A hamster or a parrot.
FREE VERSE –poetry that is “free” of
rhyme scheme. Poets writing in free verse try to capture the rhythms of ordinary speech. The following poem is written as free verse:
The City
If flowers want to growRight out of the concrete sidewalk cracks,I’m going to bend down and smell them.
-David Ignatow