Rhthym in Poetry

RHYTHM IN POETRY
It is a literary device that is used to denote

beat and pace of a poem through the pattern
of stressed and unstressed syllables in a
verse.
Kinds of Rhythm
1. Single rhythm – consists of one rhyming syllable eight, ate

2. Double rhythm – consists of two rhyming syllables shaken,
waken
3. Triple rhythm – consists of three rhyming syllables tenderly,
slenderly
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Types of Rhyme –it is a literary device used to
denote the repetition of similar sounds in two or more
words at the end of lines in poems.
B.
1. Perfect Rhyme – stressed vowel and all the sounds
are repeated perfectly.
ex. Dreamingly, seemingly
2. Imperfect Rhyme – not all sounds or syllables
rhyme.
ex. Lonely, fondly
3. Eye Rhyme – words seem to rhyme because of their

spelling
⦁ ex. save, have
⦁3
1.Masculine Rhyme – end
sounds are stressed syllables
Ex. Day, away
2. Feminine Rhyme – words of

more than one syllable rhyme
and has a falling accent
Ex. shaken, taken
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Verse in Poetry: - refers to a line in poetry.

It is made up of feet, groups of regularly
recurring accented and
unaccented syllables.
“Kinds of Feet
1. Iambus – it is composed of two syllables. The

second syllable is accented.
-/-/-/-/
It WAS/ a LOV/er AND /his LASS (Shakespeare)
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2. Trochee –it is composed of two syllables. The first is accented.
/-/-/-/
QUEEN and/ HUNtress,/ CHASTE and/ FAIR. (Ben Johnson)
3. Anapest – it is composed of three syllables. The third is accented.
--/--/--/
I am MON/arch of ALL/ I survey. (Cowper)
4. Dactyl – it is composed of three syllables. The first is accented
/--/--/--
WE who have/ LOVED him so,/ FOLlowed him/ HONored him. (Browning)
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Meter in Poetry - Unit or measure of metrical verse involving an accented syllable and
one or two unaccented ones.
1. Monometer – That I And gone.

composed of one foot. Pass by (Herrick)
( iambic 2. Dimeter – composed of two
And die
monometer) feet
As one
Unknown
He is gone on the mountain me, 8
He is lost to the And turn his merry
forest, note
Like a summit dried fountain, Unto the sweet bird’s
When our need was the throat. (Shakespeare)
sorest. (Scott) ⦁
3.Trimeter – composed
of three feet
Under the greenwood

tree,
Who loved to lie with
3. Trimeter – composed of
three feet
Under the greenwood tree,

Who loved to lie with me,
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird’s throat.
(Shakespeare)
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4. Tetrameter – composed of four feet.
With blackest moss the flower plots

We’re thickly crusted, one and all
The rusted nails fell from the knots
That held the pear to the globe wall. (Tennyson)
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5. Pentameter – composed of five feet
Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
(Shakespeare)
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6. Hexameter – composed of six feet
⦁
This is the forest primeval, the
murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments
green, indistinct in the twilight.
(Longfellow)
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Stanzas in Poetry: - a
division in a poem
consisting of a group of
related lines. Every stanza is
a poem usually has the same
number of lines, as well as the
same pattern of rhyme and
rhythm. W 13
Stanza Forms:
1. Free Verse – has no rhyme and it follows no regular meter. Its

lines may be, and often are, of varying length.
Alone in this room,

I paint your image,
from fragments of memories
that lingers in the mind
I do not see your face,
in bursting bubbles of wine
but the bitter taste in every sip,
helps assuage the restlessness in my heart.
The melody we used to sing,
still echoes in this room.
Your smile, so sweet and full of charms
is everywhere I cast my gaze
Tomorrow, I see you no more

The time to grieve has come,
In drowning loneliness,
in between gulps of wine.
Ugh, ugh , ugh, ugh

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2. Heroic couplet – consists of two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter.
It was used by such poets as Chaucer, Dryden, and Pope. It is of
little use today.
The She Devil

(Nicasio Espinosa)
My theme: a lass with thickly powdered face

Who proudly walks with vain, affected grace,
In mad display, a man’s lewd hearts to ensnare,
Her shoulders, back and arms she dares to bare;
Her gaudy dress of latest fluffy style,
Enhanced by gems, the idiot’s eye beguile;
And her damned vanity, pride and wanton way,
A vampish heart in her betray!
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3. Ballad Stanza – stanza of four lines; the first and third are tetrameter,
the second and fourth are trimeter. Extra
unaccented syllables are frequent. The second and fourth
lines rhyme, but the first and third lines do not.
“Mark ready, mark ready, my merry men a”!

Our guide ship sails the morn”
“Now, ever a lack! My master dear,
I fear a deadly storm!
Unknown
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4. Quintain – stanza of five lines.
Hail to thee blithe spirit!

Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strain of unpremeditated art.
Shelley
5. Terza Rima – consists of stanzas of three iambic

pentameter lines (tercets). Each is linked
to the next by the
rhyme scheme;aba, bcb, cdc, ded, etc. Shelley,
however, varied the form somewhat by adding a
couplet after each four tercets.
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O Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, a Thou,
from whose unseen presence the leaves dead b Are
driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. a Yellow,
and black, and pale, and hectic red, b Pestilence-
stricken multitudes: O thou c Who chariots to their dark
wintry bed b The winged seeds, where they lie cold and
low, c Each like a corpse within its grave, until d Thine
azure sister of the spring shall blow c
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6. Sestet – stanza of six lines
I wandered lonely as a cloud

That float’s on high o’er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of golden daffodils
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
7. Rhyme Royal – stanza of seven iambic pentameter lines

with a definite rhyme scheme. Its rhyme
scheme is ababbcc.
Rhyme Royal was a favorite form of Chaucer.
8. Ottava Rima – consists of 8 iambic pentameter lines

rhyming: abababcc.
9. Spenserian Stanza – made up of nine lines – the first eight

in iambic pentameter, the last of iambic
hexameter. It was used
extensively by the English romantic poets.
10. Sonnet – composed of 14 iambic pentameter lines.
The kinds of sonnet are Italian or
Miltonic or Shakespearean.
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RHYTHM IN POETRY

It is a literary device that is used to denote

1. Single rhythm – consists of one rhyming syllable eight, ate

3. Eye Rhyme – words seem to rhyme because of their

2. Feminine Rhyme – words of

Verse in Poetry: - refers to a line in poetry.

1. Iambus – it is composed of two syllables. The

4. Dactyl – it is composed of three syllables. The first is accented

1. Monometer – That I And gone.

Under the greenwood

Under the greenwood tree,

With blackest moss the flower plots

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

1. Free Verse – has no rhyme and it follows no regular meter. Its

Alone in this room,

Tomorrow, I see you no more

Ugh, ugh , ugh, ugh

The She Devil

My theme: a lass with thickly powdered face

“Mark ready, mark ready, my merry men a”!

Hail to thee blithe spirit!

5. Terza Rima – consists of stanzas of three iambic

from whose unseen presence the leaves dead b Are

driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing. a Yellow,

and black, and pale, and hectic red, b Pestilence-

stricken multitudes: O thou c Who chariots to their dark

low, c Each like a corpse within its grave, until d Thine

azure sister of the spring shall blow c

I wandered lonely as a cloud

7. Rhyme Royal – stanza of seven iambic pentameter lines

8. Ottava Rima – consists of 8 iambic pentameter lines

9. Spenserian Stanza – made up of nine lines – the first eight

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