Composition of poetry Flashcards
Graphical appearence
Differs from prose just by looking at it
Acoustic effects
Affects reader’s mind, mood
Lines
Basic rhytmical unit
Stanza
main unit of poetry made up from lines
Cantos
Section of long narrative poems
Atemporality
Time isn’t important
Plotlesness
Absence of plot
Absence of narrators
Only narrator is the poet
Absence of dialogue
Monologue can be sometimes used
Figurative language
Connotative meaning of the word
Occurence of sound effects
rhythm -> metrical realization
rhyme -> different types
Rhythm
-metrical realization -> longer syllables are stressed, shorter unstressed
-beat, pace and flow of the poem
-pattern of U (unstressed) and _ (stressed) syllables is known as metre (metrical pattern, foot, norm)
Metrical patterns
1. iamb -> most used in English
U followed by _
2. trochee
_ followed by U
3. dactyl
_ followed by UU
4. anapaest
UU followed by _
5. spondee -> rare
_ followed by _
Iambic
-most popular - used by W. Shakespeare
-copies sound of common speech
-rising intonation
Trochaic
-copies sound of common speech
-falling intonation
Number of feet in a line
- MONOMETER - 1 metrical foot
- DIMETER - 2 metrical feet
- TRIMETER - 3 metrical feet
- TETRAMETER - 4 metrical feet
- PENTAMETER - 5 metrical feet
- HEXAMETER - 6 metrical feet
- HEPTAMETER - 7 metrical feet
- OCTAMETER - 8 metrical feet
trochaic tetrameter, iambic pentameter -> most common in English poetry
Stanza
- 2-12 lines
-no fixed number of lines/stanzas
Couplet
stanza
-2 lines that rhyme, express some complex idea, thought
Heroic couplet
stanza
-2 lines stanza written in iambic pentameter
-was popular in English poetry for centuries
Tercet
stanza
-3 line stanza
-AAA
-ABA
-Haiku -> type of tercet
Quatrain
stanza
-4 lines
Quincet
stanza
-5 lines
Sestet
stanza
-6 lines
Septet
stanza
-7 lines
Rhyme
-rhyme doesn’t have to be present in a piece of poetry
Perfect rhyme
-2 words rhyme when stressed vowels and all succeding sounds are identical
Imperfect rhyme
-2 words that rhyme only in part
-one group of rhymes is stressed while the other is not
Masculine rhyme
-words that rhyme consist of only one syllable
Feminine rhyme
-2 words consisting of 2 syllables rhyme
End rhyme
-rhymes occur at the end of a line
Internal rhyme
-2 words rhyme within a line
Initial rhyme
-alliteration
Blank verse
-poetry that doesn’t rhyme
