1. Rhythm in Writing

2. What is rhythm? The way stressed and unstressed syllables are arranged in poetry or prose Measured in feet - a unit of one heavily stressed and one less stressed syllable (sometimes there are three syllables) The beat or pulse Used widely in poetry and music

3. What does rhythm do? Produce a musical quality through the use of: – Repetition – Line length – Meter Goes hand in hand with rhythm the length of a line in syllables – Pauses in lines

4. What does rhythm create? A steady beat A pattern of sounds Expectations from the reader and listener

5. Rhythm and meter Iambs – two syllable feet; unstressed/stressed Trochees – two syllable feet; stressed/unstressed Spondees – two syllable feet; stressed/stressed Anapests – three syllable feet; unstressed/unstressed/stressed Dactyls – three syllable feet; stressed/unstressed/unstressed

6. Identifying the rhythm The stressed syllables are marked with / and the unstressed syllables with ^. This example is iambic because it has a metrical foot of one short or unstressed syllable followed by one long or stressed syllable. from Richard Edwardes’s “Amantium Irae” ^/ ^/^ /^ / ^/^/ Thefallingoutoffaithfulfriends, renewing isoflove

7. Identifying the rhythm This is an example of iambic pentameter or five beats in each line. That time | of year |thou mayst | in me |be hold | Whenyel | low leaves, | ornone, | or few, | do hang | from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73

8. Sources http://www.ehow.com/info_8698247_rhythm-literature.html http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/81-rhythm.htm http://www.brighthubeducation.com/english-homework- help/48906-rhythm-in-poetry/ http://server.riverdale.k12.or.us/~bblack/meter.html