1. Poetry
Rhythm

2. Form: The Shape of a Poem
Closed-form-
Lines of poetry contain specific number of syllables measured by heavy stress (prime) or light stress (breve)
Units of light and heavy stresses = feet

3. Method of Marking Feet
Feet- Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
The basic unit of meter is a foot.
Most common feet in English poetry:
Iamb  /
Trochee / 
Anapest   /
Dactyl /  
Spondee / /

4. Form Con’t Analysis of poetic rhythm = prosody Monometer = one foot
Repetition of feet in a line of poetry
Monometer = one foot
Dimeter = two feet
Trimeter = three feet
Tetrameter = four feet
Pentameter = five feet
*Turn to page 796.

5. Types of Closed-form Poetry
Blank verse = five unrhymed iambic lines
(iambic pentameter)
Couplet = two rhyming lines identical in length and meter
Tercet = three-line stanza, often all rhyming
Quatrain = four-line stanza, most common

6. Types of Closed-Form Poetry Con’t
Sonnet = fourteen-line poem
Italian (Petrarchan) = one octave, one sestet, usually
abba,abba,cdc,cdc
English (Shakespearean) = three quatrains, one couplet, sometimes abab,cdcd,efef,gg
Villanelle = nineteen-line poem containing six tercets, rhymed aba, concluded by four lines – most difficult to write
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7. Open-form Poetry Does not rhyme, and does not have consistent meter
Also called free verse
Relies on content, assonance, alliteration, visual images
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were early open- form poets

8. Poetry Paper Assignment DUE: MW classes- 01/04/11
Poetry Paper Assignment DUE: MW classes- 01/04/ T TH classes- 01/05/11
The paper must be words.
Choose FOUR poems from our book or any other resource.
Draw a picture (or clip pictures from a magazine) that represents the poem.
Analyze the poem.
What is the subject of the poem?
Scansion at least one stanza of the poem.
What type of rhyme scheme is used? Is it consistent?
Is there end rhyme? Internal rhyme?
What type of meter is used? Show a line from the poem marked in metered feet.
What other devices are being used? (alliteration, personification, monotony?) Give examples and explain.
What else do you want to say about the poem?