When you talk, you naturally emphasize certain syllables in your words. Meter is the combination of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line of a poem. Meter is usually talked about in two-syllable chunks, and these chunks have all kinds of fascinating and intimidating names like “trochee” and “iamb” and “anapest” and “dactyl.” You don’t have to memorize all of these names to scan a poem, though they’re helpful in talking about what kind of scansion the poem has. What’s “scansion?” Well, poems have “meter” and scansion is the way we talk about and represent that meter visually. The poem all together has the rhyme scheme AAB CCB. One easy way to see this is by putting the letter at the end of each line: The last line goes back to the long “ay” so it’s another B, not a D, because it’s not a new sound even though it’s not right next to the other B. The third line, though, ends in a long “ay” sound, so we’ll assign that sound the letter B, and the “der” in the fourth and fifth lines is C. The first line ends in “fet” so we’ll assign the letter A to “fet.” The next line ends in “fet” too, so the rhyme scheme so far is A/A. First, we assign each sound that has to be rhymed a letter, in the order it appears in the poem. When we discuss rhyming in poetry, we use a specific vocabulary to do it. Using this vocabulary lets us shortcut a lot of explanations, so let’s take a few minutes to learn it. (Some types of poetry have internal rhyme schemes we’ll talk about those another time.) If you’re struggling to find a rhyme, there are some great resources online to help you find words.
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I’m assuming everyone knows how to rhyme, so I’m going to focus on how we describe rhymes when we’re talking about poetry.įor most poetic forms, the words that you need to make rhyme are at the end of each line.
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