Rhythm

Poetry

Closed-form- Lines of poetry contain specific number of

syllables measured by heavy stress (prime) or light stress (breve)

Units of light and heavy stresses = feet

Form: The Shape of a Poem

Feet- Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables

The basic unit of meter is a foot.Most common feet in English poetry:

Iamb / Trochee / Anapest /Dactyl / Spondee / /

Method of Marking Feet

Analysis of poetic rhythm = prosody Repetition of feet in a line of poetry

Monometer = one foot Dimeter = two feet Trimeter = three feet Tetrameter = four feet Pentameter = five feet*Turn to page 796.

Form Con’t

Blank verse = five unrhymed iambic lines (iambic pentameter)

Couplet = two rhyming lines identical in length and meter

Tercet = three-line stanza, often all rhyming

Quatrain = four-line stanza, most common

Types of Closed-form Poetry

Sonnet = fourteen-line poem Italian (Petrarchan) = one octave, one sestet,

usually

abba,abba,cdc,cdc English (Shakespearean) = three quatrains,

one couplet, sometimes abab,cdcd,efef,gg

Villanelle = nineteen-line poem containing six tercets, rhymed aba, concluded by four lines – most difficult to write

*Turn to page 820.

Types of Closed-Form Poetry Con’t

Does not rhyme, and does not have consistent meter

Also called free verse Relies on content, assonance, alliteration,

visual imagesWalt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were

early open-form poets

Open-form Poetry

A Biography DUE 03/14/12For your oral presentation, please prepare a

brief (no more than 3 minutes) biography of your favorite author.

You must prepare a power point presentation OR a handout for the class.

You must have at least TWO sources for this presentationCited on the last slide or on the handout.

The paper must be 800-1000 words.Choose FOUR poems from our book or any other

resource.Draw a picture (or clip pictures from a magazine) that

represents the poem.Analyze the poem.

What is the subject of the poem?Scansion at least one stanza of the poem.What type of rhyme scheme is used? Is it consistent? Is there end rhyme? Internal rhyme?What type of meter is used? Show a line from the poem

marked in metered feet.What other devices are being used? (alliteration,

personification, monotony?) Give examples and explain.What else do you want to say about the poem?

Poetry Paper Assignment

DUE: 03/26/12