PPT-Poetry Meter and Rhyme What is Poetic Meter?

Poetic meter is a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables It is like the rhythmic beat that draws you into music Tyger Tyger burning bright In the forests of the night. Stanza. A group of lines of verse, usually set off from other groups by a space. . Think of a stanza as a “poetry paragraph”. Poets may start a new stanza to:. shift the focus of the poem. change the tone. POETRY. A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas). POINT OF VIEW IN POETRY. POET. The poet is the author of the poem.. POETRY. A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas). POINT OF VIEW IN POETRY. POET. The poet is the author of the poem.. Helpful guidelines from. Jim Richards. BYU-Idaho. 10 feet. 15 feet. 18 inches. 19’9”. 47 feet. Why?. …..the CHALLENGE!. When a basketball player accepts the . challenge. to. play ball they must follow the rules of the game.. Stanza. A group of lines of verse, usually set off from other groups by a space. . Think of a stanza as a “poetry paragraph”. Poets may start a new stanza to:. shift the focus of the poem. change the tone. Meter is the rhythm of a poem. There are specific ways to analyze meter so that we can say something clear about a poem’s rhythmic pattern.. Let’s Look At a Poem. To “scan” a poem, we mark each stressed and each unstressed syllable with a mark. Here, we’ll use / for stressed and ~ for unstressed.. Couplet: . Two lines of a poem together, with the same rhyme and the same rhyme at the end. .  Rhyming Couplet . Rhyme Scheme. Find words that rhyme with . eye. black. glue. will. Build rhyming sentences with 5 of them. . RHYME. The repetition of sounds. Example: hat, cat, brat, fat, mat, sat. My Beard. by Shel Silverstein. My beard . grows. to my . toes. ,. I never wears no . clothes. ,. I wraps my . hair. . Around my . Recognizable patterns. Patterns can be determined by:. Stanza length. Metrical pattern (ex: . iambic pentameter). Rhyme scheme. Syllable count. . Meter. Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. poetry's rhythm, or its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. . Meter is measured in units of . feet . ; the five basic kinds of metric feet are indicated below. . Accent marks indicate stressed ( / ) or unstressed ( u ) syllables.. Terms and Types. “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility”. . -William Wordsworth. “Poetry is the human soul entire,. . . Poetic meter is a generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.. It is like the rhythmic beat that draws you into music. Tyger. ! . Tyger. ! burning bright. In the forests of the night,. poetry's rhythm, or its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. . Meter is measured in units of . feet . ; the five basic kinds of metric feet are indicated below. . Accent marks indicate stressed ( / ) or unstressed ( u ) syllables.. poetry's rhythm, or its pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. . Meter is measured in units of . feet . ; the five basic kinds of metric feet are indicated below. . Accent marks indicate stressed ( / ) or unstressed ( u ) syllables..