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Rhythm Rhyme
Rhythm is a musical quality produced by Words rhyme when they end with the same
repeated sound patterns. All language has vowel or vowel/consonant sound, as in the words
rhythm, but its especially important in poetry. clown and noun (both have an ow sound followed
by an n sound). In poetry, rhymes can be simple
Meter The most obvious kind of rhythm is the (moth with cloth) or more complicated (antelope
regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syl- with cantaloupe). Rhyme adds a musical quality
lables in the words poets put together. This regu- to poetry, making it easier to memorize lines,
lar pattern, or beat, is called meter. When poets stanzas (groups of lines that express a complete
decide on a regular beat, they make all the lines idea), or an entire poem.
about the same length. Lines with an equal num-
ber of stressed syllables produce the same beat. End Rhyme Most rhymes are end rhymes: The
last word in one line is paired with the last word in
Scanning To find a poems meter, read the the next line. In the excerpt from The Sneetches
poem aloud. Mark each stressed syllable you hear on the left, stars and thars are end rhymes.
with the symbol and each unstressed syllable
with the symbol . Marking this pattern is called Internal Rhyme Sometimes the last word in
scanning. Read these marked lines aloud, and one line will be echoed by a word placed at the
listen for the beat: beginning or in the middle of the following line.
This is called an internal rhyme. Listen for inter-
nal rhymes in these lines:
Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches
The rumbling, tumbling stones,
Had bellies with stars. And Bones, bones, bones!
The Plain-Belly Sneetches from The Sea by James Reeves
Sound Example
Other Sound Effects Rhyme
Repetition and Refrain Poetry relies on rep- Alliteration
etition, the recurrence or repeating of something. Onomatopoeia
Rhymes are created by ending sounds that repeat.
Rhythm is created by beats that repeat. A poet
may repeat a word, phrase, line, or group of lines
to make a refrain. A poems refrain, like a songs Learn It Online
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chorus, may be the part that sticks in our minds.
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