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Elements of Poetry

Ryhme Rhythm and Measure of


Poetry
RHYME- The presence of words
that have identical or similar
(approximate) final sounds; the
recurrence of the same final
sounds result in what is known as
RHYME pattern such as aabb (star-
are-high- sky), abab (star-high-are
sky). Or abba (star-high-sky-are)
TYPES of Rhyme
Internal Rhyme Terminal Rhyme
The rhyme that exist within The rhyme which exists at the
the line. end of lines, as in Jose Garcia
Villa’s “God said , I made a
Example: Francisco Tonogbuas man”
“Hermit’s Chant” “ God said I made a man
Out of clay
“ Litanies of silentness” But so bright he, he spun
Himself to brightest Day.”
TYPES of Rhyme
Perfect/ Exact Rhyme Approximate/ Imperfect Rhyme
• The rhyme which is The rhyme which exhibited by
exhibited by words having words having similar final
identical final sounds sounds.

Example: Example:
Rhyme-time Rhyme-thine
Sound-round Sound –count
Final-fatal Final- table
TYPES of Rhyme
Eye Rhyme Masculine/ single rhyme
The rhyme which is rxhibited The rhyme which is exhibited
by words having the same by one-syllable words.
final letters with different
sounds Example:
Lame-dame
Example: Star-are
Come-Home High- sky
Joan- loan
Comb-tomb
TYPES of Rhyme
Feminine/ double rhyme Compound rhyme
• The rhyme which is • The rhyme which is
exhibited by two-syllable exhibited by compound
words with stress on the words producing two pairs
same syllable( either first, of rhyming words.
second, or third
Example: Example
Mother-father Eyesight- daylight
Children-brethren Moonwalk- goon talk
Walking-talking Dishcloth- fish broth
TYPES of Rhyme
Rime Riche/ Identical rhyme Monorime
The rhyme which is exhibited • The rhyme which is
by homophonous words or exhibited by a stanza
homonyms. having terminal words with
the same final sounds.
Example Example
Seen-scene Jose Garcia Villa’s couplet
Sight –site “First, a poem must be
Night-knight magical,/ Then musical as a
seagull
TYPES of Rhyme
Tririme
• The rhyme which is
exhibited by a stanza having
three pairs or sets of
rhyming words at the end of
lines.
• Example
• Francesco Petrarch’s sonnet
“o gentle Hand Whose
pressure Rules my Heart”
Rhythm
The regular succession of accented
and unaccented syllables in line;
associated with the metrical feet
classified below, it may be choppy or
smooth, fast or slow.
What is a foot in poetry?
• The literary device “foot” is a measuring unit
in poetry, which is made up of stressed and
unstressed syllables.
IAMB- a two syllable foot which is accented on
the second syllable.

Example:
When in/disgrace/with For/tune and/ men’s
eyes’
Anapest/ Antidactylus – a three syllable foot which is
accented on the third syllable, as in the lines of George
Gordon Byron’s
The Destruction of Sennacherib
The Assyri/an came down/ like a wolf/ on the fold
And his co/horts were gleam/ing in pur/ple
And gold
And the sheen/ of their spears/ was like stars/ on the sea
When the blue/wave rolls nightl/y on deep /
Galilee.”
• Dactyl- A three-syllable foot which is accented
on the first syllable.
Example Robert Browning’s “The Lost leader”
“Just for a handful of silver he left us
Just for a riband to stick in his coat.”
Trochee/Choree/Choreus
• A two – syllable f

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