1. Poetic Rhythm and Rhyme

2. Meter Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables The basic unit of meter is a foot. Most common feet in English poetry:  Iamb  /  Trochee/   Anapest   /  Dactyl/    Spondee/ /

3.  / Iambic  /  /   /  / I asked my mo·ther for fif·ty cents  /  /  / x /  / To see the el·e·phant jump the fence  /  / He jumped so high, he touched the sky  /  /  /   /   / And he did not come back ‘til the Fourth of Ju·ly

4. Shakespeare’s SONNET 138 (IAMBIC) U / U / U / U / U / When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her though I know she lies, That she might think me some untutor’d youth

5. Trochaic /  /  /  /  /  /  /  Pe·ter Pi·per picked a peck of pick·led pep·pers

6. Anapestic   /  /   /   / There was an old man in a tree   /   /   / Who was hor·rib·ly bored by a bee   /   / When they said, "Does it buzz?“   / He re·plied, "Yes, it does!   /   /   / It's a reg·u·lar brute of a bee!" Edward Lear

7. /   Dactylic (po·e·try) /   /   /   /   Picture your self in a boat on a river with /   /   /   /   tangerine tree-ees and marmalade skii-ii-es. Dactylic tetrameter ¾ time: The Beatles, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds “

8. Spondaic / / Rarely an entire line of poetry / / /   / See Saw, Margery Daw / / I scream. You scream. /  /  /  We all scream for ice cream

9. Metrical Lines One footmonometer Two feetdimeter Three feettrimeter Four feettetrameter Five feetpentameter (iambic pentameter) Six feethexameter (dactylic hexameter) Seven feetheptameter Eight feetoctameter

10. Stanzas 2 line stanzas: couplets 3 line stanzas:  tercets  triplets: aaa bbb ccc ddd  terza rima: aba bcb cdc ded 4 line stanzas: quatrains 5 line stanzas: quintets 6 line stanzas: sestets 7 line stanzas: septets 8 line stanzas: octaves

11. Rhyme Scheme The ends of lines repeat the same sounds. Mary had a little jam, she spread it on a waffle. And if she hadn't eaten ten she wouldn't feel so _____. ABCBABCB The snow came down And covered the town The snow came down last night The snow came down And covered the town And left it snowy _____. AABAABAABAAB

12. Kinds of Rhyme Exact: eye/sky/pie; sing/ding/ring Near or Half: sing/dung/rang Eye: tough/through/dough Internal: "Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December" / Masculine: rang/sang /  /  Feminine: ringing/singing

13. Practice Let’s complete some scansion practice!