What is rhythm?
Musical quality in a language produced by repetition.
Tradational rhythms are the interplay between the basic pattern and the variation developed in a specific work.
Rhythm of Stressed Words
Speaking with emphasis on words without being conciousness of what you are saying. The stressed word out weigh the unstressed words.
Syllabic verse
Establishes a pattern based on stresses but on the number of syllables in each line.
The number of syllables in the first stanza is the same; the number in each line matches the second lines, and so forth.
An example is an haiku.
"Curving up, then down.
Meeting blue sky and green earth
Melding sun and rain."
From: Donna Brock
Unique rhythms are the approach used in the Bibical verse.
Describes rhythms that are devised to meet the needs of an individual poem.
An example would be free verse. It is use a the way we would usually talk in an everyday setting.
__Visual rhythms__is how the poem looks on the printed page.
Typography refers to the arrangement of words on the page.
Vertical rhythms are extra spaces are kept betweeb lines.
__Conrete poetry__relays on it shape.
An common example of this is shape poetry and it has less use of language, rhythms or metaphor. Using curisorty value.
Rhythms of Syntax and Phrasing
Syntactical rhythms are created by repeating a particulare form such as a question or assertion.
syntax are series of questions.
An example would be the Ten Commands.
"Thou shall not kill.
Thou shall not commit adultery.
Thou shall not murder."
Exodus 20:1-20
Victoria B.
__Three Genres__
What is Rhyme schemes?
Patterson of rehymes in a poem. Rhyme scheme is usually referred to by letters repreisenting the rhyming words so that one can refer to an abab rhyme scheme.
example:
I saw a fairy in the woods,
He was dressed all in green,
He drew hes sword while I just stood,
And realized I'd been seen.
Free verse- relies instead on more irregular patterns
True rhyme- identy in sound in accented syllables,begins withe the accented vowel and continues to the end, sounds precding the accented vowel must be unlike.
Stanza- is a largerpowm.
A stanza may have a self comtaired rhyme scheme or be made up of a fixed number of lines as in much modern poetry may be an arbitrary unit dejined by publishing conventens such a white space or punctuation.
Feminine rhymes- in English prosody,is a rhme that matches two or more syllables at the end of the respective lines.
example:
A woman's face with nature's own hand painted
hast thou. the master mistressof my passion,
A woman's gente heart,but not acquianted with
shifting change, as is false women's fashion.
Couplet- is a pair of lines of verse that form a unit.
example:
I THINK that I shall never see a
A poem as lovely as a tree
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
As the sweet earths flowing breast;
Triplets - is a set of three item, and includes in particlar not.
Terza rima - is a rhyming verse from that was first used by the Italian.
Quatrain - is a poem or stanza within a poem that consists of four lines.
It is the most common of all stana form in European poetly.
Enjambement - is the breaking of a syntatic unit by the end of a or between two verse. It's opposite is end - stopping .where each linguistic unit correspoundsunit the line legth. The term is directly borrowed from french.
example: That honourable grief lodged here which bums
Worse than tears drown
End-stopping- is a freature in poetry where syntactic unit correspounds in lengh to the line. It's runs on into the next line.
example: As I in honey winters night stood shivering in the snow
Surprised I was with sadder,heat which made my heart to glow.
Slant- is the predominant angle of the downward stroke in western handwriting.
Rhymes- is a repetition of identicaler similar sound in two or more different words and is most often used in poetry.
Overtunes- is sinusoidal component of a wareform of greater frequency than it's fundamantal frequency.
Free verse- is a term describing various styles of poetry that are not written using strict meter or rhyme.
Camille W.
Three Genres
Three basic types of sound poetry
Folk: the root of sound poetry, it may be seen in the lyrics of certain folk songs such as Hores Song of the Navajos
Onomatopoetic: imittaion of natural or other sound, for example the Brekkekex Ko-ax ko-ax of the frogs in Aritophanes drama or "jugs jugs jugs" of the birds among the Elixabethans. This use of sound has no semantic sense to speak os it's a consist of overlaps between nonsense and sense.
Nonsense where Western Literature with the nonsematic style. While not set as a verse, its not exacty sound poetry. Ons example is from Victorian, Eward Lear:
Thrippsy pillowins
Inky tinky pobbie bookie abblesquabs
Flosky! beebul trimble flosky!-okul scratcha-
bibblebongebo, viddle squibble tog a tog ferry moy assity
amsky flamsky ramsky damsky crocklefether squiggs
flunky wisty poom
sluskypipp.2
Antonio B.
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