50 likes | 304 Vues
Poetry: Rhyme, Rhythm, and Meter. Rhyme. The correspondence of sounds Internal Rhyme: Rhyme that occurs within the line Cecily B eas ley was never polite. She never said thank you , pl eas e , or good night .
E N D
Rhyme • The correspondence of sounds • Internal Rhyme: Rhyme that occurs within the line • Cecily Beasley was never polite. • She never said thank you, please, or good night. • End Rhyme: the repetition of accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds in words which come at the ends of lines of poetry. • Cecily Beasley was never polite. A • She never said thank you, please, or good night. A
Rhythm • The regular recurrence of sounds. • Meter: the measured rhythm of a poem • Monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter • Foot: the pattern in a line of poetry (1 accented syllable and one or more unaccented syllables) • Iamb: unaccented syllable, accented syllable I wonder who she is • Trochee: accented syllable, unaccented syllable under cover • Anapest: unaccented syllable, unaccented syllable, accented syllable As I came to the edge of the woods • Dactyl(ic): accented syllable, unaccented syllable, unaccented syllable Half a league, half a league, half a league onward • Spondee: accented syllable, accented syllable bookmark tetrarch • Monosyllabic Foot: accented syllable Grow • Blank Verse: unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
Spenserian Stanza • Nine Lines • Rhyme Scheme: ababbcbcc • Eight lines in iambic pentameter • The ninth line in iambic hexameter A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine, A Y cladd in mightiearmes and silver shielde, B Wherein old dents of deepe wounds did remaine, A The cruellmarkes of many a bloudyfielde; B Yet armes till that time did he never wield: B His angry steede did chide his fomingbitt, C As much disdayning to the curbe to yield: B Full jolly knight he seemed, and faire did sitt, C As one for knightly jousts and fierce encounters fitt. C
The Faerie Queen • Romantic Allegory (494): An epic of extended fiction which uses characters and events to represent nonliteral meanings. The characters are often personified to obtain the strong symbolism essential in any allegory. • Gloriana: Gloryor Queen Elizabeth I • Red Cross Knight: Holiness or Typical Christian seeking holiness • Una: Truth or Scripture • Error: False religions and doctrines that lead men to destruction or Roman Catholic Church