1. Journal - Poetic Rhyme and Meter Test your previous knowledge. What do you know about Rhyme and Meter? What is rhyme? What is rhyme scheme? What is a foot in poetry? What is meter? What is scansion? What is a sonnet? What is its rhyme and meter?

2. The Stanza A group of lines in a poem: 1 line………...a line 2 lines……….a couplet 3 lines……….tercet 4 lines……….quatrain 5 lines……….cinquain 6 lines……….sestet 7 lines……….septet 8 lines……….octave

3. Rhyme Scheme and Meter

4. rhyme scheme A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other, regardless of their position in the poem. In other words, it is the pattern of end rhymes or lines.poemsonglettersrhyme

5. rhyme scheme Let’s practice with this Robert Frost poem: Fire and Ice Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. a b a a b c b c b

6. scansion is the analysis of the rhyme and meter of a poem. It should tie into the poem’s overall meaning.

7. Meter is the pattern of beats or accents of the syllables. Unstressed = u Stressed = /

8. Metric Foot It is the basic building block of poetry. It makes up the pattern of syllables. Usually involves one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables (exceptions exist). The pattern of feet create the meter of a poem.

9. iamb (iambic) An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable Forget (“for” is unstressed, the emphasis is on “get”) Deceive (“de” is unstressed, the emphasis is on “ceive”) The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls. u/u/u/u/

10. trochee (trochaic) A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable Listen Lonely Double, double, toil and trouble /u/u/u/u

11. anapest (anapestic) Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable Obvious Regular For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. uu/uu/uu/uu / uu/uu/uu/

12. dactyl (dactylic) One stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables Excellent Temperate …you murdering ministers... /uu/uu/

13. spondee (spondaic) Two stressed syllables Downtown shoeshine //

14. pyrrhic Two unstressed syllables and the of the u u

15. The Line The poetic line is measured by the number of feet it contains.

16. Meter Lengths 1 footMonometer 2 feetDimeter 3 feetTrimeter 4 feetTetrameter 5 feetPentameter 6 feetHexameter 7 feetHeptameter 8 feetOctameter 9 feetNonometer 10 feetDecameter

17. Write out the poetic markings for Dactylic trimeter Anapestic dimeter Spondaic monometer Trochaic tetrameter

18. Dactylic trimeter

19. Anapestic dimeter

20. Spondaic monometer

21. Trochaic tetrameter

22. So what is “iambic pentameter”? The “iambic” part tells us the pattern. Unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables. The “pentameter” part tells us how many iambs will be in the line. Penta means five, so five iambs of two syllables each for a total of 10 syllables.