Poetry

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Poetry

• Sound Devices

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Rhyme

• Repetition of end vowel sounds
• Feather, together, weather
• End rhyme rhyme that occurs at the end of a line
  of poetry
• Swans sing before they die twere no bad thing
• Should certain persons die before they sing
• Internal rhyme rhyme that occurs in the same
  line of poetry
• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,
  weak and weary.

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Rhyme Scheme

• Regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
• Rhyme scheme is indicated by using different
  letters of the alphabet for each new rhyme
• I wandered lonely as a cloud
• That floats on high oer 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.

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Alliteration

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds
• Used to emphasize words, imitate sounds, and
  create musical sounds
• Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
• And the sound of iron on stone,
• And how the silence surged softly backward

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Consonance

• Repetition of consonant sounds at the end of
  words
• Whose woods these are I think I know.
• His house is in the village though
• He will not see me stopping here
• To see his woods fill up with snow.

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Assonance

• Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different
  consonants in two or more stressed syllables
• weak and weary

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Onomatopoeia

• Use of words that imitate sounds
• Whirr, thud, sizzle, hiss

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Rhythm

• The pattern of beats, or stresses, in spoken or
  written language
• Some forms of poetry require specific rhythms
• Free verse uses the natural pattern of everyday
  speech