Mechanics of Poetry
The mechanics of poetry is considered before writing poems, under the following:
- Broken rhyme
- Chain rhyme
- Lamb
- Lambic Pentameter
- Meter
- Pause
- Stress
- Versification
- Broken rhyme: result of splitting a word at the end of a line to manipulate a rhyme.
- Chain rhyme: rhyming scheme where the line of the first stanza is linked to a rhyme in the next stanza, ending stanza loops back to the first stanza or ends with the last rhyme repeated.
- Lamb:a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, a short syllable followed by a long syllable.
- Lambic Pentameter: consist of two syllables repeated five times in succession where unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable within a line of verse.
- Meter: a measure of rhyme; (the unit of meter is the foot) Metrical lines are named for the number of feet in a line. (1) monometer, (2) dimeter, (3) trimeter, (4) tetrameter, (5) pentameter, (6) hexameter, (7) heptameter (8) octameter
- Pause: this is an interval between syllables of verse.
- Stress: special emphasis on a word, syllable, or phrase with a line of verse.
- Versification: versification is the art of writing verses.
Figures of Speech
- Imagery--to evoke a mental image (sometimes emotional), i.e a figurative language
- Irony-- expression of words used to convey an opposite meaning from the usual sense.
- Metaphor--a term used to treat two things that are not the same as equals such as "A bird swimming in the river."
- Oxymoron--the combining of two words that looks to be contradictory i.e (opposites), but offer an important effect such as a good devil, an innocent liar.
- Personification--a form of metaphor where an inanimate object, animal, or idea is given human-like characteristics
- Prose--ordinary everyday language used in speech or writing with no style or rhymes.
- Pun--a play on words that sound similar for a humorous effect.
- Repetition--a repeating sound, line, syllable, etc. bring reinforcement to the meaning of a poem.
- Rhyme--a recurrence of similar ending sounds at the ends of a poetic line/verse.
- Simile--a comparison between two unlike things using like or as, etc. such as white as snow, as black as charcoal.
Verse Forms
* A verse can be one line of poetry or a stanza.
Alexandrian--a line of poetry 12 syllables (or 13 if the last syllable is unstressed) consisting
6 iambic feet.
Blank Verse--poetry written without rhymes usually in iambic pentameterin English verse
Chain Verse--like chain rhyme, but instead of linking rhymes, words, phrases or lines are repeated in succeeding stanzas.
envoy (envoi)--a short final stanza of a poem
Free Verse--a verse form free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme)
Open Form--created through shifts, leaps, hesitations, and fragmentations in lines. It conforms to no set form, structure,or rhythmic patterns.
Refrain (chorus)--a repeated verse within a poem or song pertaining to a central topic
Stanza Forms--names describing the number of lines is an stanzaic unit, (2) couplet, (3) tercet, (4) quatrain, (5) quintet (6) sestet, (7) septet, (8)
Alexandrian--a line of poetry 12 syllables (or 13 if the last syllable is unstressed) consisting
6 iambic feet.
Blank Verse--poetry written without rhymes usually in iambic pentameterin English verse
Chain Verse--like chain rhyme, but instead of linking rhymes, words, phrases or lines are repeated in succeeding stanzas.
envoy (envoi)--a short final stanza of a poem
Free Verse--a verse form free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme)
Open Form--created through shifts, leaps, hesitations, and fragmentations in lines. It conforms to no set form, structure,or rhythmic patterns.
Refrain (chorus)--a repeated verse within a poem or song pertaining to a central topic
Stanza Forms--names describing the number of lines is an stanzaic unit, (2) couplet, (3) tercet, (4) quatrain, (5) quintet (6) sestet, (7) septet, (8)
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