Some Elements of Poetry

Some Elements of Poetry
Rhyme
• refers to the correspondence of some of the sounds of words. The words rate ate, and late rhyme, as do scope, lope, and grope.
In most rhyming poetry, the rhyming words come at the ends of lines:


Rhythm and meter
• are closely allied characteristics or poetry.
• Rhythm refers to the flow of sounds, their rise and fall, their accents, and pauses.
Meter• is regularized, patterned rhythm. Notice how in this line of Words-worth’s


It is possible to accent alternate syllables so that the line maybe read (with some exaggeration, of course) as,


Or, take this line of Ben Jonson’s:


This maybe read as,


-Each of these groups called a foot. A foot must contain at least one accented syllable. The first example, with the accented syllable following the unaccented one, is an iambic foot. The second, which has the accented syllable coming first, is a trochaic foot.

Monometer is a line with one foot.
Dimeter is a line with two feet.
Trimeter is a line with four feet.
Tetrameter is a line with four feet.
Pentameter is a line with five feet.
Hexameter is a line with six feet.

Melody
Alliteration – means the repetition for effect of initial vowels or consonants.
Onomatopoeia – is a long word that means simply the imitation in words of natural sounds.
Assonance – refers to the correspondence of vowel sounds. It differs from rhyme in that it does not have identical consonant sounds following the identical vowels.