Wes-+The+Sounds+of+Poetry,+Sound+Devices

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 * The Sounds of Poetry: **

1. Rhyme - repetition of a stressed vowel sound and any sounds that follow it in words that are close together in a poem. Ex: Fuzzy Wuzzy was a b__ear__.  Fuzzy Wuzzy had no h__air__.  -- bear and hair rhyme.

2. Rhyme Scheme - a regular pattern of rhymes in a stanza. Ex: There was a big black cat. //a//  He ate too many mice. //b//  He then got round and fat. //a//  Because they tasted nice. //b// // -- // each line marked //a// ends with a rhyming word, and so does each line marked //b//

3. Internal Rhyme - when one or more of the rhymed words are in the middle of a line. Ex: He must __pause__ for __applause__.  -- pause and applause rhyme, and are contained in the same line of poetry.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. Approximate Rhyme - rhymes that repeat the same sounds but aren't exactly the same. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ex: With the coming of the __morn__, the __moon__ still shown. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> -- morn and moon aren't exact echos but still seem to rhyme.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. Rhythm - a musical quality in the way a poem is read that isro based on repetition. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ex: There was a black cat, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Who had a black hat. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> --When you read those phrases, they are almost exactly the same, and rhyme with repetition.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. Meter - a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ex: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> --In this Greek poem, you read the lines and notice how some syllables are unstressed while others just come out <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> stressed. This forms a pattern in the poem's phrases.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">7. Foot - a type of meter, where the pattern is typically one stressed syllable followed by one or more unstressed syllables. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ex: × / × / × / × / × / <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> × / × / × / × / × / <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> --In these lines of a poem, the marks above the words (× and /) show the stressed and unstressed syllables.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sound Devices: **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">8. Onomatopoeia - a word that imitates or suggests the sound that it describes. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ex: __Tick__, __Tock__, goes the clock, till death takes toll on its masters. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> --The words tick and tock are used to show sound that is associated with clocks.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">9. Alliteration - the repetition of a specific sound or letter in a series of words or phrases. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ex: The __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">t __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">ricky __t__roublesome __t__roll __t__erribly __t__rapped __T__homas's __t__oys. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> --In this phrase the "t" sound is constantly repeated. ( I came up with this myself J <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">10. Assonance - the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhymes within a sentence or phrase. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ex: D __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">o __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> y __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">ou __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> like bl __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">ue __<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">? I tr__ue__ly love it t__oo__! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> --The long "u" sound is repeated in the above line, creating multiple internal rhymes.