1. Blank Verse  It is unrhymed iambic pentameter.  It is abrupt and irregular speech.  It is distinguished by having regular meter, but no rhyme.

2. Sonnet  A 14 line poem that uses iambic pentameter.

3. Free Verse  Poetry that does not have a set pattern of rhythm or rhyme.

4. Iambic Pentameter  Is a rhythmical pattern of syllables.  “iambic” means the rhythm goes from an unstressed syllable to a stressed one. In other words, when read out loud the words follow a natural beat. daDum, daDum, daDum, daDum, daDum 1 foot + 1 foot + 1 foot + 1 foot + 1 foot = 5 feet  Each iambic unit is called a foot which is the daDum.  “Pentameter” means that the iambic rhythm is repeated 5 times or has 5 feet.

5. Iambic Pentameter Continued  The final foot of a line does not have to be on a stressed syllable (daDum) it can be daDumda.  This is more common in romance languages.

6. Iambic Pentameter Continued  To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. -Tennyson (daDum, daDum, daDum, daDum, daDum)  Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? –Shakespeare (daDum, daDum, daDum, daDum, daDum) (weak/STRONG, weak/STRONG, weak/STRONG, weak/STRONG, weak/STRONG)

7. Meter  Describes the regular linguistic sound patterns of a verse. (The rhythmical pattern of a poem.)  Scansion: is the analysis of poetry’s metrical and rhythmic patterns.  Prosody: describes the poetic meter

8. Rhyme: the same ending vowel and/or consonant sound (i.e. suite, heat, complete).  Internal Rhyme -Alliteration The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying her and me –  End Rhyme: sonnets use end rhyme which means, the rhymes come @ the end of the line  Internal Rhyme -Assonance My grandmothers are full of memories Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay  Half Rhyme: occurs when the sounds are not quite identical, as in the words care and dear.(AKA Slant, Near, Approximate)

9. Rhyme Scheme  The pattern of end-rhyme in a stanza or a poem Sing a song of sixpence,a A pocket full of rye, b Four and twenty blackbirds,c Baked in a pie.b When the pie was opened, d The birds began to sing.e Was this not a dainty dishf To set before the King? e

10. Enjambment  Is the continuation of a thought or a sentence from one line of poetry to the next without a pause.  For example, the last two lines of “Sing a Song of Sixpence,” are enjambed: the question about whether the blackbird pie is appropriate for the King is one sentence that spans two lines without grammatical or verbal pause.

11. Caesura (literally means a cut or cutting)  Refers to particular kind of break within a poetic line.

12. Rhyming Couplets  Are sets of two lines that rhyme with each other.  It might contain a contain a complete thought, or the thought might continue in the next set of lines.

13. Stanza Form  Couplet : a 2 lined stanza  Triplet or Tercet: a 3 lined stanza  Quatrain: a 4 lined stanza  Quintain: a 5 lined stanza  Sestet: a 6 lined stanza  Heptastich: a 7 lined stanza  Octave: a 8 lined stanza  Sonnet: a 14 lined poem

14. End Stopped Line  Is one in which the end of the line corresponds with a natural speech pause (i.e. period, semicolon or some other form of punctuation at the end of the line.)

15. William Shakespeare’s Epitaph Activity Good Friends, for Jesus’ sake forbear, To dig the bones enclosed here! Blest be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.

16. History  In Shakespeare’s time when graveyards became full, corpses were dug up and the bones were removed to make room for more bodies. Grave robbers would also dig up a corpse. Especially if the deceased was wealthy in order to strip the body of anything of worth. Shakespeare created his own epitaph to keep his body from this horrible treatment.

17. Now that there is no longer any danger of Shakespeare’s bones being removed, you have the job of writing a more glorious and appropriate epitaph for the bard’s grave. _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________

18. Directions: 1.

19. Syllable: are considered the the “building blocks” of words. A syllable is a unit of speech that is made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with one or more optional phones (single sounds or “phonetic segments”).  Monosyllable: Consists of a single Syllable (like cat) is called monosyllabic.  Disyllable: Consists of two Syllables (like monkey) is disyllabic. monkey daDum

20. Stress  Is the emphasis given to some syllables.  Stressed syllables have a higher pitch than non-stressed syllables.  Stressed syllables are more forceful or louder than non-stressed syllables.