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Welcome to part three of the AuthorHouse Poetry Writing Master Class. In this article I will continue in the spirit of NaPoWriMo and celebrate the beauty of the English language through poetry. Now we will look at the more technical aspects of rhythm and rhyme in poetry. These include the stringent rules used to measure beat and the types of rhymes and the locations where you will find them in your prose. 6.Rhythm
The rhythm of a poem follows a very specific set of rules. You have likely heard of poems being described as being written in “iambic pentameter” or possibly “trocheeic tetrameter.” The first word in these two descriptions refers to the poem’s beat pattern. The second words refer to the length of the poem’s line, measured in syllables. Beat Patterns Iambic: a short-stressed syllable followed by a long-stressed syllable (the most common in the English language). Examples include destroy, create, deceive.
Trocheeic: a long-stressed syllable followed by a short-stressed syllable. Examples include prob lem, rath er, Rob ert.
Dactylic: a long-stressed syllable followed by two short-stressed syllables. Examples include mur mur ing, ru mi nate, Hen der son.
Anapestic: Two short-stressed syllables followed by a long-stressed syllable. Examples include in ter rupt, un der stand, ap pre hend.
Spondeeic: A long-stressed syllable followed by another long-stressed syllable. Examples include sea gull, pen guin.
The Pyrrhic Foot: Two syllables, both soft. There is no unaccented syllable in a pyrrhic foot. Examples include in the, as he. Measures - One Foot is Equivalent to Two Syllables Monometer: one foot Dimeter: two feet Trimeter: three feet Tetrameter: four feet Pentameter: five feet Hexameter: six feet Heptameter: seven feet Octameter: eight feet 7.Rhyme
When poetry scholars get together and talk about rhyme, what they are really talking about is rhyme scheme. They will take a poem and structure it by using letters to signify rhyme. A Pantoum has a rhyming scheme of abba, for example. There are various rhyme schemes. Free verse poets like to use off rhyming words that sound similar, but do not strictly rhyme. Most poems do rhyme, however, and there are two types of precise rhymes.
Assonance is when the vowel sounds rhyme. Last, fast, mast, for example.
Alliteration is when the consonant sounds match. Bouncing, baby, boy, for example. This is the final instalment of this AuthorHouse Poetry Writing Master Class. I hope you have enjoyed and learned more possibilities for writing poetry and have been inspired by this AuthorHouse Poetry Writing Master Class to take on the NaPoWriMo challenge this April.
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