Elements of Poetry

Ryhme Rhythm and Measure of

Poetry
RHYME- The presence of words
that have identical or similar
(approximate) final sounds; the
recurrence of the same final
sounds result in what is known as
RHYME pattern such as aabb (star-
are-high- sky), abab (star-high-are
sky). Or abba (star-high-sky-are)
 TYPES of Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
The rhyme that exist within
the line.
Example: Francisco Tonogbuas
“Hermit’s Chant”
“ Litanies of silentness”
Terminal Rhyme
The rhyme which exists at the
end of lines, as in Jose Garcia
Villa’s “God said , I made a
man”
“ God said I made a man
Out of clay
But so bright he, he spun
Himself to brightest Day.”
 TYPES of Rhyme
Perfect/ Exact Rhyme Approximate/ Imperfect Rhyme
• The rhyme which is The rhyme which exhibited by
exhibited by words having words having similar final
identical final sounds sounds.

Example: Example:
Rhyme-time Rhyme-thine
Sound-round Sound –count
Final-fatal Final- table
 TYPES of Rhyme
Eye Rhyme Masculine/ single rhyme
The rhyme which is rxhibited The rhyme which is exhibited
by words having the same by one-syllable words.
final letters with different
sounds Example:
Lame-dame
Example: Star-are
Come-Home High- sky
Joan- loan
Comb-tomb
 TYPES of Rhyme
Feminine/ double rhyme
• The rhyme which is
exhibited by two-syllable
words with stress on the
same syllable( either first,
second, or third
Example:
Mother-father
Children-brethren
Walking-talking
Compound rhyme
• The rhyme which is
exhibited by compound
words producing two pairs
of rhyming words.
Example
Eyesight- daylight
Moonwalk- goon talk
Dishcloth- fish broth
 TYPES of Rhyme
Rime Riche/ Identical rhyme Monorime
The rhyme which is exhibited • The rhyme which is
by homophonous words or exhibited by a stanza
homonyms. having terminal words with
the same final sounds.
Example Example
Seen-scene Jose Garcia Villa’s couplet
Sight –site “First, a poem must be
Night-knight magical,/ Then musical as a
seagull
 TYPES of Rhyme
Tririme
• The rhyme which is
exhibited by a stanza having
three pairs or sets of
rhyming words at the end of
lines.
• Example
• Francesco Petrarch’s sonnet
“o gentle Hand Whose
pressure Rules my Heart”
 Rhythm
The regular succession of accented
and unaccented syllables in line;
associated with the metrical feet
classified below, it may be choppy or
smooth, fast or slow.
 What is a foot in poetry?
• The literary device “foot” is a measuring unit
in poetry, which is made up of stressed and
unstressed syllables.
 IAMB- a two syllable foot which is accented on
the second syllable.

Example:
When in/disgrace/with For/tune and/ men’s
eyes’
Anapest/ Antidactylus – a three syllable foot which is
accented on the third syllable, as in the lines of George
Gordon Byron’s
The Destruction of Sennacherib
The Assyri/an came down/ like a wolf/ on the fold
And his co/horts were gleam/ing in pur/ple
And gold
And the sheen/ of their spears/ was like stars/ on the sea
When the blue/wave rolls nightl/y on deep /
Galilee.”
• Dactyl- A three-syllable foot which is accented
on the first syllable.
Example Robert Browning’s “The Lost leader”
“Just for a handful of silver he left us
Just for a riband to stick in his coat.”
 Trochee/Choree/Choreus
• A two – syllable f