1. Rhythm and Rhyme Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
Martin Luther King by Raymond Richard Patterson

2. Rhythm
Rhythm is a poem’s pattern of stressed (‘) and unstressed (“) syllables.
Notice the drum beat rhythm here:
He came /upon /an age

3. The meter of a poem is its rhythmical pattern
The meter of a poem is its rhythmical pattern. Meter is measured in feet, or single units of stressed and unstressed syllables.
The line below has three feet. Each foot has two syllables, an unstressed one followed by a stressed one. Slashes separate the feet.
Beset/ by grief, / by rage

4. Rhyme
Rhyme is the repetition of a sound at the ends of nearby words – age/ rage, for example. These poems have end rhymes – the rhyming words appear at the ends of lines. It was many and many a year ago, A In a kingdom by the sea, B That a maiden there lived whom you may know A By the name of Annabel Lee; B And this maiden she lived with no other thought C Than to love and be loved by me. B ABABCB