1. Rhyme and Meter
Interpreting Poetry:

2. Rhyme Eye rhyme – Through, rough (spelling, no sound)
Perfect Rhyme – Fox, Box
Identical Rhyme – Fox, Fox (same word)
Near/Slant rhyme – Ride, Line – school, through
End Rhyme – Final syllables of a line
Internal Rhyme – Within a verse

3. Rhyme Scheme
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,    So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,    So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. A B C D E F G

4. Common Rhyme Schemes ABAB – Alternate rhyme XAXA AABB – couplets AAAA
ABBA – Enclosed rhyme
AXXA

5. Syllables
/ - Stressed syllable ˘ - Unstressed syllable / / u u / u u / u / u / u Darth Vader decided to crush the rebel soldier. / / / u / u / u/ u / u / u Luke Skywalker will rebel against his father's wishes.

6. Foot/Feet
Iamb ˘/ : lightly stressed syllable followed by stressed syllable
Trochee /˘ : stressed syllable followed by light
Anapest ˘˘/ : two light followed by one stressed
Dactyl /˘˘ : stressed followed by two light syllables

7. Meter – number of feet per line
Monometer: one foot ˘/
Dimeter: two feet ˘/ ˘/
Trimeter: three feet ˘/ ˘/ ˘/
Tetrameter: four feet ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/
Pentameter: five feet ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/
Hexmeter: six feet ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/
Septameter: seven feet ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/
Octometer: eight feet ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/
Nonameter: nine feet ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/ ˘/