1. Rhyme, Rhythm, Repetition and Meter
Poetry Sound Devices:
Rhyme, Rhythm, Repetition and Meter

2. Sound Devices Add a musical quality to poetry.
Poets use these devices to enhance a poem’s mood and meaning

3. Rhyme A repetition of sounds – Can appear three (3) ways
End Rhyme: Repetition of sounds at the end of the line.
He jumped in the pool;
He’s so cool!
Internal Rhyme: The repetition of sounds within a line of poetry.
He fell to the ground with a sound like a tree.
Near Rhyme: not an exact sound, but close
Internal Rhyme: I wanted a snack but I got a pat.

4. Rhyme!! Think-pink Fast – past School – cool Carried – married
Do these words rhyme?
Charge – chart
Care – fair
Pay – date
Score – poor
Use – choose
Write your own!
Smart –
Snow –
Power -
Trying –
Skip -
Think-pink
Fast – past
School – cool
Carried – married
Wonder - under

5. ABAB AABB AABBA Rhyme Scheme
The pattern of rhyme between lines of poetry.
Just a few examples
ABAB AABB
AABBA

6. AABB Rhyme Scheme The clock struck one (A) My day was done (A)
The sun went down (B)
I went out on the town. (B)

7. ABAB Rhyme Scheme
Jabberwock by Lewis Carrol Beware the Jabberwock, my son (A) The jaws that bite, the claws that catch (B) Beware the Jubjub bird and shun (A) The frumious Bandersnatch (B)

8. AABBA Rhyme Scheme Hickory, Dickory, doc (A)
The mice ran up the clock, (A)
The clock struck one (B)
The day was done (B)
Hickory, Dickory doc (A)

9. Can you tell me the Rhyme Scheme?
Isabel met an enormous bear, Isabel, Isabel didn’t care; The bear was hungry, the bear was ravenous, The bear’s big mouth was cruel and cavernous, The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you, How, do Isabel, now I’ll eat you! Night is come, Owls are out Beetles hum Round about

10. Meter
A repeated pattern of rhythm within a poem. The structure of the poem.
Hickory, dickory dock
The mice ran up the clock
Hey diddle diddle
The cat in the fiddle

11. Rhythm
The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Often used to create a light, happy mood.

12. Let’s try it! Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch
Beware the Jubjub bird and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch

13. Football Analogy Difference between meter and rhythm
In football, the coach calls the play – that’s meter (the big picture). As the play develops, players may make adjustments – a running back may cut inside, a wide received may break off his route, or a quarterback may scramble; that’s rhythm (detail of the big picture).

14. Repetition
The use of any repeated element of language (a sound, word, phase, clause, or sentence). Isabel met an enormous bear Isabel, Isabel didn’t care Why do poets use repetition?

15. Stanza The “paragraph” within a poem
How many stanza does this poem have?
How many lines?
One By
James Berry
Only one of me
And nobody can get a second one
From a photocopy machine.
Nobody has the fingerprints I have
Nobody can cry my tears, or laugh my laugh
Or have my expectancy when I wait.
But anybody can mimic my dance with my dog
Anybody can howl how I sing out of tune.
And mirrors can show me multiplied
Many times, say, dressed up in red
Or dressed up in gray.

16. Couplet
Two lines together in a poem with an end rhyme. A “couple” of lines together that rhyme.
Frog
By Debbie Wilner
I have a frog.
He sat on my dog.
My frog was green
My dog was mean.
But together they were
A perfect team.
How many couplets do
you see?

17. Quatrain
A poem of four lines. They can be the following rhyme schemes:
AABB ABAB ABBA
AABB Rhyme Scheme
The Mountain By
Donna Brock
The mountain frames the sky (A)
As a shadow of an eagle flies by (A)
With clouds hanging at its edge (B)
A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge (B)

18. Quatrain continued
ABAB I love the mountains in the fall, (A) As the leaves begin to turn (B) Like decorations for the ball (A) It makes my heart just yearn. (B)
ABBA
Fall colors seem to transcend (A)
With yellow, orange, and browns (B)
It’ll soon cover all the towns (B)
With a warm and hearty blend. (A)

19. Now you try!
AABB ABAB ABBA

20. Rhyme A repetition of sounds – Can appear three (3) ways
End Rhyme: Repetition of sounds at the end of the line.
He jumped in the pool;
He’s so cool!
Internal Rhyme: The repetition of sounds within a line of poetry.
He fell to the ground with a sound like a tree.
Near Rhyme: not an exact sound, but close
Internal Rhyme: I wanted a snack but I got a pat.

21. Meter
A repeated pattern of rhythm within a poem. The structure of the poem.
Hickory, dickory dock
The mice ran up the clock
Hey diddle diddle
The cat in the fiddle

22. Rhythm
The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Often used to create a light, happy mood.

23. Football Analogy Difference between meter and rhythm
In football, the coach calls the play – that’s meter (the big picture). As the play develops, players may make adjustments – a running back may cut inside, a wide received may break off his route, or a quarterback may scramble; that’s rhythm (detail of the big picture).

24. Repetition
The use of any repeated element of language (a sound, word, phase, clause, or sentence). Isabel met an enormous bear Isabel, Isabel didn’t care Why do poets use repetition?

25. Quatrain
A poem of four lines. They can be the following rhyme schemes:
AABB ABAB ABBA
AABB Rhyme Scheme
The Mountain By
Donna Brock
The mountain frames the sky (A)
As a shadow of an eagle flies by (A)
With clouds hanging at its edge (B)
A climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge (B)