Musicality in Poetry, Slides of English Literature

Download Musicality in Poetry and more Slides English Literature in PDF only on Docsity!

MUSICALITY

in POETRY

Lit 01: Literatures of the Philippines

FFF

• (^) V

Related Literary Terms

• (^) Rhyme- the repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line.
• (^) Rhythm- the pattern of stresses in poetic writing, one that influences the way the reader hears the sounds and the speed at which they read them.
• (^) Meter- the pattern of beats in a line of poetry. It is a combination of the number of beats and arrangement of stresses.
• (^) Poetic Foot- t refers to a unit of meter in poetry. It is a grouping of stressed and/or unstressed syllables.

Rhyme- usually the repetition of

end sounds.

For example: bump- jump wall- ball talk-walk girl- curl

Another example: Behold the duck. It is specially fond It does not clock. Of a puddle or pond. A cluck it lacks. When it dines or sups, It quacks. It bottoms ups. End Rhymes

Internal Rhymes- appear within a single line of poetry.

For example:

When Festus was but four year old, his parents seldom had to scold. They never called him “Festus, don’t”; he never whined and say “I don’t”. Yet it was sad to him to dine. His table manners were not fine.

Triplet AAA

AAA

Set of three lines in

a stanza (a tercet)

that share the

same rhyme

Villanelle ABA (repeat five

times), ABAA

(quatrain)

Comprised of five,

three-line stanzas

(ABA) and

concludes with a

quatrain (ABAA)

Type Rhyme Structure Details

Type Rhyme Structure Details

Enclosed Rhyme ABBA ABBA The first line and

fourth line rhyme

and enclose a pair of

new rhymes in the

middle. Also called

an internal rhyme

scheme.

Limerick AABBA AABBA A five-line poem that

starts with a coupled

rhyme scheme but

finished by enclosing

lines three and four

with a rhyme

matching lines one

and two.

Practice

The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They turn their back on the land. They look at the sea all day. As long as it takes to pass A ship keeps raising its hull; The wetter ground like glass Reflects a standing gull.

Night Storm It came in a winter’s night, a fierce cold with quite a bite. Frosted wind with all its might sent ice and snow an invite to layer earth in pure white and glisten with morning light.

One Art

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. —Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Rhythm- the word “rhythm” comes from the Greek

meaning “measured motion.” It is the pattern of stresses

in poetic writing.

• (^) Iamb / ˘ ’/ : the most common of all metrical feet. An iamb is a set of two syllables, the first of which is unstressed or short, and the second of which is stressed or long. If a line consists of iambs, it is “iambic.” Iambs are often described as sounding like a heartbeat. They’re easy to use throughout an entire poem, as Shakespeare often did.

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; Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare