![]() ![]() Letters continue to be assigned in sequence to lines containing new ending sounds. The letter b identifies the next line ending with a new sound, and all lines that rhyme with it. The letter a is placed after the first line and all lines that rhyme with the first line. Letters are used to identify a poem’s rhyme scheme (a.k.a rhyme pattern). Rhyme Scheme The pattern of end rhymes (of lines) in a poem. He never called his playmates names, and he was good in running games ġ1 This may seem confusing, but it isn’t. Ring around the rosies, A pocket full of posies, Abednego was meek and mild he softly spoke, he sweetly smiled. Internal rhymes appear within a single line of poetry. The purple words/syllables are “stressed”, and they have a regular pattern, so this poetic line has “meter”.ġ0 Rhyme The repetition of end sounds in wordsĮnd rhymes appear at the end of two or more lines of poetry. Rhythm is often combined with rhyme, alliteration, and other poetic devices to add a musical quality to the writing.Įxample: I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. Meter is the regular patterns of stresses found in many poems and songs. An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, And, softly dripping, drop by drop, Upon the quiet mountain top, Steals drowsily and musically Into the universal valley." Edgar Allen Poe, The SleeperĨ Rhythm and Meter Rhythm is the sound pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables. ![]() Cummings “I made my way to the lake.”Ħ Consonance The repetition of consonant sounds, NOT at the beginning of words but within words, before and after different vowels EX: slip-slop, creak-croak, black-blockħ Consonance Example "At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. Carl Sandburg, Early Moon “…on a proud round cloud in white high night…” - E. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came. The stony walls enclosed the holy space.Īssonance examples Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. This one is usually NOT on the CST Test, but why not know it?! A repetition of vowel sounds within words or syllables. Smell the perfume of flowers…” - from “Three Days to See” by Helen Keller Alliteration examplesĤ Assonance A repetition of vowel sounds within words or syllables. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon This way, and that, she peers, and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees… - from Silver by Walter de la Mare How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? (almost ALL tongue twisters!)ģ “Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. The wild and wooly walrus waits and wonders when we will walk by. ![]() 8th Grade English/Language Arts – Poetry Unit: Sound Devices - BlumeĢ Alliteration The repetition of initial consonant sounds, in two or more neighboring words or syllables. ![]()
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