Poetic Sounds
Terminology of Poetic Sounds
Rhyme: "The repetition or correspondence of the terminal sounds of wrod" (Norton Intro to Literature).
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Rhyme Scheme
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Rhyme Scheme Definition:
The rhyme scheme is the practice of rhyming words placed at the end of the lines in the prose or poetry. Rhyme scheme refers to the order in which particular words rhyme. If the alternate words rhyme, it is an “a-b-a-b” rhyme scheme, which means “a” is the rhyme for the lines 1 and 3 and “b” is the rhyme affected in the lines 2 and 4.
Example:
Roses are red (a)
Violets are blue (b)
Beautiful they all may be (c)
But I love you (b)
The above is an “a-b-c-b” rhyme scheme.
End Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
Slant Rhyme
Eye Rhyme
Free Verse
Open Verse
Blank Verse
Onomatopoeia: splat, murmur, squish, boom
Alliteration: The Wicked Witch of the West
Assonance: "The death of the poet was kept from his poems" (W. H. Auden's In Memory of W.B. Yeats)
Consonance: "Stroke of luck"
Some Poems don't Rhyme
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