PPT-Poetry Meter and Rhyme What is Poetic Meter?

Poetic meter is a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables It is like the rhythmic beat that draws you into music Tyger Tyger burning bright In the forests of the night. Say. , Father Thames! ––for thou hast . seen. Full . many a sprightly race,. . Disporting . on thy margent green. ,. The . paths of pleasure . trace. ;. . Who . foremost now delight to . cleave. POETRY. A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas). POINT OF VIEW IN POETRY. POET. The poet is the author of the poem.. Stanza. A group of lines of verse, usually set off from other groups by a space. . Think of a stanza as a “poetry paragraph”. Poets may start a new stanza to:. shift the focus of the poem. change the tone. Meter is the rhythm of a poem. There are specific ways to analyze meter so that we can say something clear about a poem’s rhythmic pattern.. Let’s Look At a Poem. To “scan” a poem, we mark each stressed and each unstressed syllable with a mark. Here, we’ll use / for stressed and ~ for unstressed.. Couplet: . Two lines of a poem together, with the same rhyme and the same rhyme at the end. .  Rhyming Couplet . Rhyme Scheme. Find words that rhyme with . eye. black. glue. will. Build rhyming sentences with 5 of them. . Jacob . Kobler. Shane Nelson. Megan . Schonhar. English IV. 25 March 2013. Types. There are many different types of sound techniques in poetry. . Alliteration. Assonance. Cacophony. Rhyme. Onomatopoeia. Modern Usage. History Refresher. Helpful Information. While Hamilton was married to Elizabeth Schuyler, he engaged in an affair with Maria Reynolds who played to Hamilton’s sympathy for orphaned children by telling him her husband had left her and her daughter to fend for themselves. It turned out to be a plot of extortion designed to gather extensive amounts of money from Hamilton. The affair (and extortion) was later revealed and although Hamilton admitted his misdoings, it was a large detriment to his political career.. Terms and Types. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility”. . -William Wordsworth. “Poetry is the human soul entire,. . . Poetic meter is a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.. It is like the rhythmic beat that draws you into music. Tyger. ! . Tyger. ! burning bright. In the forests of the night,. Form (Poetic Structure). A particular organization of parts that makes a whole. Examples. . • the way words are arranged in a line. . • lines are arranged in a stanza. . • units of sound are organized to achieve rhythm and rhyme. Haiku. Cinquain. . Diamante . Rhyming . Free Verse. Poetic Devices . Alliteration-. the initial sounds of a word, beginning either with a consonant or a vowel, repeated in close succession.. Assonance-. Alliteration – the repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. Ex: “But the sea, the sea in darkness calls.” . Allusion – a reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture. . cyborg. -economy. Dr. Sebastian Berger, Senior Lecturer, University of the West of England. Overview. What is the relationship between poetry and economics?. “They are opposed!” . But are they really strange bed-fellows?. Stanza. – groups of lines in a poem; functions like a paragraph in prose.. couplet. – a stanza with two lines. Tercet. – a stanza with three lines. Quatrain. – a stanza with four lines. Poetry forms.