U2 - L2 Elements of Specific Literary Forms (CW)

ELEMENTS OF
SPECIFIC LITERARY
FORMS
Unit II - Lesson 2
determine specific
forms and conventions
of poetry; and
OBJECTIVES
: the lesson,
At the end of use selected elements
you must: of poetry in short
exercises.
Traditional poems are a
form of poetry
CONVENTION characterized by adherence
to a specific verse structure
AL POETRY
such as rhyme schemes or
patterns in meter.
CONVENTIONAL VS. CONTEMPORARY
POETRY
TRADITION MODERN
AL POETRY POETRY
• fixed form and number of • free form and number of lines
lines
• usually has rhymes • doesn't have rhymes
• has rhyme scheme • free rhyme pattern
• only some topics could be • can be about common topics
chosen
Rhyme is a repetition
of similar sounding
words at the end of
lines in a poem. RHYME
PERFECT GENERAL
RHYME EYE RHYMES
RHYME
POETRY USUALLY EMPLOY THE

FOLLOWING KINDS OF RHYME
- two words rhyme in such a
way that their final stressed
vowel and all the following
sounds are identical
PERFECT
EXAMPLES:
• sight and light
RHYME
• right and might
• rose and dose
- refers to a variety of phonetic
likenesses between words.
EXAMPLES:
• Syllabic rhyme
• Imperfect rhyme GENERAL
• Assonance or Slant Rhyme
• Consonance
RHYME
• Alliteration
- is a rhyme between a
stressed and an unstressed
syllable.
IMPERFEC
EXAMPLES:
T RHYME
• wing and caring
• reflect and subject
-occurs when words have
a similar sounding last
syllable but without a
stressed vowel. SYLLABIC
EXAMPLES:
RHYME
• bottle and fiddle
• cleaver and silver
• patter and pitter
- exists in words having
the same vowel sound.
EXAMPLES: assonance or
• kill and bill
slant rhyme
• wall and hall
• shake and hate
- occurs when words have
the same consonant
sound.
EXAMPLES:
CONSONAN
• rabbit and robber CE
• ship and sheep
- refers to similar initial
consonant sound.
EXAMPLES: ALLITERATIO
• sea and seal N or head
• ship and short
• top and tip rhyme
- also called sight or spelling
rhymes
- refer to words having the same
spelling but different sounds (final
syllables) eye rhymes
EXAMPLES:
• cough and bough
• love and move
INTERNAL
TAIL RHYME RHYME
HOLORHYME CROSS RHYME
- occurs in the final - a word at the end of - the words of the line - matching sounds
syllable of a verse or a verse rhymes with rhymes entirely with occur at the end of
line another word in the the next line intervening lines.
EXAMPLE: same line EXAMPLE: EXAMPLES:
"Twinkle, twinkle EXAMPLE: Raging waves elope ... ago
little star The ship was cheer'd, the gilt sun. ... year,
How I wonder what the harbor clear'd, Rage in waives, eh? ... know,
you are" And every day, for Lope the guilt's swan. ... there.
food or play,
RHYMES MAY ALSO BE CLASSIFIED

BASED ON THEIR POSITIONS.
The pattern of stressed
and unstressed
syllables in a verse or
within the line of a METER
poem.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
1 2 3 4 5
Each pair of unstressed and stressed syllables makes up

the foot. A foot with this pair of syllable is called iamb.
Since there are five iamb, the meter is iambic
pentameter.
Monometer 1 foot
Dimeter 2 feet
TYPES OF Trimeter 3 feet
METER Tetrameter 4 feet
Pentameter 5 feet
IN RELATION TO THE NUMBER OF
STRESSED AND UNSTRESSED
Haxameter 6 feet
COMBINATIONS IN EACH LINE
Heptameter 7 feet
Octameter 8 feet
A SI C
5B
T E R S
ME • Iambic meter (Unstressed + Stressed)
• Trochaic meter (Stressed + Unstressed)
• Spondaic meter (Stressed + Stressed)
• Dactylic meter (Stressed + Unstressed + Unstressed)
• Anapestic meter 9Unstressed + Stressed + Stressed)
FORMS OF CONVENTIONAL POETRY
A. HAIKU
-ancient form of Japanese poetry
- total of 17 syllables shared between 3 lines
- syllabic pattern of 5-7-5
- nature as its traditional subject
B. Sonnet
- it is a fixed verse containing 14 lines in iambic
pentameter.
- 2 variations: Shakespearean or Petrarchan
SHAKESPEAREAN VS.
PETRARCHAN
SHAKESPEAREAN Petrarchan
• 1 octave, 1 sestet
• also know as English sonnet
• (8) ABBA ABBA
• three quatrains, 1 couplet • (6) CDECDE/CDCCDC
• ABAB CDCD EFEF GG • man longing for a woman to
return his love.
• Volta
c. limerick
- a humorous poem consisting of 5 lines where the 1st,
2nd, and 5th lines must have 7-20 syllables that rhyme
and have the same rhythm. The 3rd and 4th lines must
have 5-7 syllables that should also rhyme with each
other and have the same rhythm.
D. VILLANELE
- fixed verse of 19 lines
- 5 tercets, 1 quatrain
- no fixed number of syllables, nor a well
organized meter
- follows some set of rhyme scheme
This poetry is free
from the limitations
FREE VERSE of fixed meter,
POETRY rhythm, and rhyme
patterns.
A poem is divided into a unit of
language called a LINE.
LINE : SENTENCE
STANZA : PARAGRAPH LINE AND
LINE BREAK - ending a line LINE
without any use of punctuation BREAKS
mark.
- the instances that the lline
break is employed at the mid-
clause
- a thought in a line of a poem ENJAMBMEN
that does not end at the line
break but moves over to the
T
next line
WRITE IT D O W N !
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ELEMENTS OF

POETRY USUALLY EMPLOY THE

RHYMES MAY ALSO BE CLASSIFIED

Each pair of unstressed and stressed syllables makes up

TYPES OF Trimeter 3 feet

METER Tetrameter 4 feet

return his love.

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