Seven Sound Elements

Ricki Tivvi Tavvi…… Big Black Bugs on the slippery silvery slope….. alliteration Also called head rhyme or initial rhyme, the repetition of the initial sounds (usually consonants) of stressed syllables in neighboring words or at short intervals within a line or passage, usually at word beginnings, as in "wild and woolly," or the line from Shelley's "The Cloud": I bear light shade for the leaves when laid Sidelight: Ricki Tivvi Tavvi…… Big Black Bugs on the slippery silvery slope….. Alliteration has a gratifying effect on the sound, gives a reinforcement to stresses, and can also serve as a subtle connection or emphasis of key words in the line

assonance The relatively close juxtaposition of the same or similar vowel sounds, but with different end consonants in a line or passage, thus a vowel rhyme, as in the words, date and fade. Sidelight: The effective use of internal assonantal sounds is displayed throughout Byron's “ “She Walks in Beauty."

Iambic Pentameter The most common metrical foot in English, German, and Russian verse, and in many other languages as well; it consists of two syllables, a short or unaccented syllable followed by a long or accented syllable, Iambic = unstressed and stressed unit (foot) Ta da/ ta da/ ta da/ ta da/ ta da (5 feet) or penta (five) meter Or Iambic (unstressed and stressed) Penta (5) meter (measurement of how manyfeet “but soft/what light/through yon/der win/dow breaks?”

Onomotopoeia Strictly speaking, the formation or use of words which imitate sounds, like whispering, clang, sizzle or buzz Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows

Foot A unit of rhythm or meter; the division in verse of a group of syllables, one of which is long or accented. For example, the line, "The boy | stood on | the burn | ing deck," has four iambic metrical feet.

Meter METER or METRE A measure of rhythmic quantity; the organized succession of groups of syllables at basically regular intervals in a line of poetry, according to definite metrical patterns

Consonance The close repetition of the same end consonants of stressed syllables with differing vowel sounds, such as boat and night, or the words drunk and milk in the final line of Coleridge's "Kubla Khan."

Can you find any of the 7 sound elements in “Jabberwocky?” 1 2. 3 4 5 6 7