A Short Guide To Poetry Part 1: Rhyming
A Short Guide to PoetryPart 1: RhymingTypes of RhymeEnd rhymeThis is the sort of rhyme we’re all used to: a rhyme that comes at the end of a line.Here are some examples (all of the examples are end-rhyme):Humpty Dumpty sat on a wallHumpty Dumpty had a great fallThis beat is my recitalI think it’s very vitalMary had a little lambIts fleece as white as snowAnd everywhere that Mary wentThe lamb was sure to go[You might have noticed that in the last example, only the second and fourth lines rhyme. The first and thirdlines do not. This is totally acceptable.]Internal rhymeInternal rhyme is rhyme that comes within a line of poetry. It is often combined with end-rhyme.Here’s an example from Eminem, who uses internal rhyme in all of his raps:His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavyThere's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghettiHere’s another example, from “The Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carrol:He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing back
Two-syllable rhymeYou can rhyme two syllables, as well as one (you can also rhyme three syllables, if you’d like to!). Normally,this works best if the stress comes on the first syllable rather than the second syllable.Here’s an example from “Bust a Move” by Young MC (it also includes internal rhyme):You’re on a mission, And you’re wishin’Someone could cure your lonely conditionIt can be very effective to combine two-syllable rhyme with one-syllable rhyme, as Rudyard Kipling does in hisclassic poem, “If”:If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;[There is also an example of two-syllable rhyme on the previous page. Can you find it?]Partial RhymePartial rhyme makes some people really uncomfortable, but others love it. It’s what you get when you rhymetwo words that share some sounds in common, but don’t rhyme perfectly. For example, when Eminem rhymes“sweaty” with “heavy”, that’s partial rhyme.Here’s another example, from “Strange Meeting” by Wilfred Owen:I am the enemy you killed, my friend.I knew you in this dark; for so you frownedYesterday through me as you jabbed and killed.I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.
Part 2: Poetic DevicesMessing around with the line: end-stopping and enjambmentEnd-stopping: sticking to the linesEnd-stopping means writing one thought per line (which, in most cases, means one sentence per line).Example:Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.-William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18”Enjambment: crossing the lineAn enjambment occurs when the line ends before your thought does, so it carries on into the next line. Youpronounce it like this: “En - jamb - ment”Examples:If you could hear, at every jolt, the bloodcome gargling forth from froth-corrupted lungs-Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”And death is better, as the millions know,Than dandruff, night-starvation, or BO.-WH Auden, “Letter to Lord Byron”For your purposes, the most important thing to remember about this is that you don’t need to write your poemsso that every idea begins at the start of a line, and ends at the end of it.Devices for description: Metaphor and SimileMetaphor and simile are very similar. The distinction between the two is that in metaphor you describesomething as if it is something else, while in a simile you just say that something is like something else.An example of metaphorFogBY CARL SANDBURGTHE fog comeson little cat feet.It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on.
Two examples of simileThere are several lovely similes in this poem (in order to understand it, you should know that you can use apiece of flint to start a fire):FlintCHRISTINA ROSETTIAn emerald is as green as grass,A ruby red as blood;A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;A flint lies in the mud.A diamond is a brilliant stone,To catch th
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