THE FORM OF POETRY
• A. Sound Values : Rhyme, Alliteration and
Assonance, Onomatopoeia
• B. Versification
- Rhythm and Meter
- Lines of Verse
- Stanza Forms
- The Sonnet
- Free Verse
Rhyme
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Masculine
Feminine
Double rhyme
Triple rhyme
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
Rhyme
• Lines of verse are said to rhyme when the
ends of their final words have identical
sounds.
Come with bows bent and with emptying of quivers,
Maiden most perfect, lady of light,
With a noise of winds and many rivers,
With a clamour of waters, and with might;
Rhyme
• Here “quivers”, “rivers”, “shivers”; “light”
and “might” are rhyming groups. In each of
these clusters both pronunciation and
spelling coincide.
• Since rhyming is a matter of sound,
though, a difference in spelling is of no
consequence so long as the various
spellings represent the same sound
Masculine and feminine rhyme
• When the accented vowel is in the final
syllable of the line—and again, this is the
usual practice– the rhyme are said to be
masculine
• When one or two unaccented syllables
follow the accented syllable is the rhyming
words, the rhyme is feminine. The more
frequent kind of feminine rhyme, that of
two syllables, is called double rhyme.
Feminine rhyme
• The more frequent kind of feminine rhyme,
that of two syllables, is called double
rhyme.
• Triple rhyme is the variety of feminine
rhyme in which two unaccented syllables
follow the accented syllable and all three
rhyme with a similar arrangement in a
nearby line.
End rhyme
• We usually expect to find rhymes in the
final position of lines of verse. This
customary use is called end rhyme.
Internal rhyme
• Some poets enrich their verbal melody by
placing a word within the line (usually at or
near the middle) to rhyme with the final
word. Such internal rhyme enhances the
binding effect of rhymes; it may also give
great stress to certain lines if most lines in
the poem do not share this quality.