1. Poetry

2. Essential Question
How does understanding rhyme and meter help us understand the meaning of a poem?

3. Rhyme
correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
Cat
Hat
Jumping
Bumping
When a poem has rhyming words at the end of lines they are called End rhymes
My cat is nice
My cat likes mice

4. Rhyme Scheme
Is the way of describing the pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
Each new sound at the end of a line is given a letter, starting with A, then B, and so on. If an end line repeats the end sound of an earlier line, it gets the same letter as the earlier line.
My cat is nice A
My cat likes mice A
My cat is fat B
I like my cat B

5. Rhyme Scheme My cat is nice A My cat likes mice A My cat is fat B
I like my cat B
My cat is nice A My cat is fat B My cat likes mice A I like my cat B
My cat is gray A
My cat is fat B
My cat is cute C
I like my cat B

6. Mr. Brown the circus clown Put his clothes on upside down He wears his hat upon his toes And socks and shoes upon his nose

7. I started on my homework But my pen ran out of ink My hamster ate my homework My computers on the blink

8. Today I had a rotten day
As I coming in from play
I accidentally stubbed my toes
And tripped and fell and broke my nose

9. My penmanship is pretty bad.
My printing’s plainly awful
In truth, my writing looks so sad
It ought to be unlawful

10. Rhythm/Meter

11. is the rhythm created by stressed and unstressed syllables
Meter (rhythm)
is the rhythm created by stressed and unstressed syllables

12. greater amount of force used to pronounce one
Stress
greater amount of force used to pronounce one
Syllable over another

13. Foot A unit of meter; the group of stresses and
non- stresses that define the meter
Poems can have any number of feet in
their lines

14. A pair of lines that end in rhyme
Couplet
A pair of lines that end in rhyme

15. My mother ate an apple and my father ate a pear

16. Feet Monometer: One foot Dimeter: two feet Trimeter: Three feet
Tetrameter: four feet
Pentameter: five feet
Hexameter: six feet
Heptameter: seven feet
Octameter: eight feet

17. Types of Meter
Iamb: metrical foot containing two syllables; the first is unstressed, the second is stressed
ex: “to be or not to be” – Hamlet
Trochee: metrical foot containing two syllables; the first is stressed, the second is unstressed
ex: Irish poets learn your trade
Anapest: metrical foot containing three syllables, first two are unstressed, while the last is stressed
ex: In a flash, to the dark

18. Types of Meter
Dactyl: metrical foot containing three syllables, the first is stressed, while the last two are unstressed
ex: All in the valley of death
Spondee: an untraditional metrical foot in which two syllables are stressed
ex: “Cry, cry! Troy burns!” – Trolius and Cressida
Pyrrhic: an untraditional metrical foot in which two syllables are unstressed (usually precedes/follows spondee)

19. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary

20. Many words and phrases naturally fall into iambs, trochees, spondees dactyls or anapests
Iamb u/
Behold
Amuse
Arise
Awake
Return
Noel
depict
Trochee /u
Happy
Hammer
Pittsburgh
Nugget
Double
Roses
Pitcher
Spondee //
Football
Mayday
Shortcake
Dactyl /uu
Carefully
Changeable
Merrily
Jefferson
Anapest uu/
Understand
Anapest
Contradict

21.      My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree         Toward heaven still,         And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill         Beside it, and there may be two or three         Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough.         But I am done with apple-picking now.         Essence of winter sleep is on the night,         The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

22. Gerbil, gerbil, on the run
in your wheel, that looks like fun.
You must be in awesome shape.
Are you trying to escape?

23. ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,…
While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads…
had just settled our brains for a long winter‘s nap….
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky…
with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

24. Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death

25. In the sun the slagheap slept.
Down the lane came men in pitboots
Coughing oath-edged talk and pipe-smoke
Shouldering off the freshened silence.

26. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.