Monday, October 13, 2008

Playing with Poetry

Rhythm: regular or irregular intervals in the same or a modified form.

Rhyme Scheme: the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal, ababbcc.

Alliteration: commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group.

Anaphora: repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.

Consonance: correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.

Assonance: resemblance of sounds.

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