Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. - Plutarch
Poetry Rhyme Form Meter
Form Couplet (2) Tercet (3) Quatrain (4) Quintain (5) Sestet (6) Poetry: the best words in the best order. – Samuel Tayler Coleridge Lines of poetry are like sentences in prose. Lines are grouped into Stanzas, which are like paragraphs. Stanzas have different names according to the number of lines they have: Couplet (2) Tercet (3) Quatrain (4) Quintain (5) Sestet (6) Septet (7) Octave (8) I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity. Nor had I time to love; but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.
Other Forms The Verse Paragraph For very long poems, written almost like prose. These were commonly used to tell myths and stories throughout history, before writing. Beowulf, Epic of Gilgamesh. Some combinations of stanzas are popular forms with their own names. Sonnets (14 lines) Sonnets contain an octave, followed by a sestet, though sometimes this can change. Free verse Allows poets to write in whatever form they desire, without any rules. Poets generally create their own structure. Villanelle (19 lines) 5 tercets followed by a quatrain. No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? – John Barton
Rhyme Poetry often features rhyming lines. Lines rhyme when the last sound is the same Rhymes are analyzed with what is called Rhyme Scheme The rhyme scheme is noted by using a letter to represent the sounds at the end of lines. It is possible For to turn so oft, To bring that lowest which was most aloft, And to fall highest yet to light soft: It is possible. The quintain at left has an ABBBA rhyme scheme. What is love? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter What's to come is still unsure In delay there lies no plenty Then come kiss me, Sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. The sestet (in this case a couplet+quatrain) uses an AABCCB rhyme scheme. When a poem does not have any clear rhyme scheme, it is Blank Verse.
Meter Poetry frequently creates a rhythm by using Word Stress. Desert Poets arrange words in such a way that the stressed syllables appear at regular intervals. Words in English have stress. This means we say one syllable more strongly than another. Consider an example of Iambic Pentameter Shakespeare frequently used this. Iambic means that the rhythm is unstressed->stressed, and penta means 5. Desert Dessert Computer Jungle Attack Happy Hello Desert Dessert Computer Jungle Attack Happy Hello But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? There are many kinds of meter. Free verse generally does not use a fixed meter. Rhythm can still be created based on the number of syllables, the speed at which they are read, or via the choice of words.