PWRHRH 1

ENGLISH
Ms. LeCren, La Jolla High School

Name:________________________________________ Period:____ Date:______________________________
Poetry Worksheet: Rhythm Rhythm makes a poem sound musical, more than just a statement of feelings.
CLASSWORK: Listen to the following lines from Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet: But soft what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun....
If you listen to the rhythm of the lines, you can almost here a beat to the words: da dum/da dum/da dum/da dum/da dum / / / / / The rhythm you hear is called meter, and would be written like this: Meter is a series of accented / and unaccented syllables. One set of syllable patterns is called a foot.
There are different kinds of rhythms. Listen to the following lines as you read them (the rhythm is named below each set of lines.) With falling oars they kept the time And drops of crystal seemed for wantonness to weep iamb (iambic) unaccented,accented set of syllables in a foot:
) /
Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty Dante once prepared to paint an angel trochee (trochaic) accented,unaccented set of syllables in a foot:
And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold With the sheep in the fold and the cows in their stalls anapest (anapestic) unaccented,unaccented,accented set of syllables in a foot: This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlocks Love again, song again, nest again, young again dactyl (dactylic) accented,unaccented,unaccented set of syllables in a foot: /
Once you determine what kind of feet you have in your poem, then you count how many feet you have in each line. You can determine the metrical line by counting the number of feet. How many iambic feet are in each of the following lines? A book of verses underneath the bough A jug of wine, a loaf of breadand thou Rhythm (adj.) Pattern iambic / trochaic / anapestic / dactylic Meter one foot line = monometer two foot line = dimeter three foot line = trimeter four foot line = tetrameter five foot line = six foot line = seven foot line = eight foot line = pentameter hexameter heptameter octometer
1. Identify the meter (rhythm and metrical line) of each of the following lines. a. And drops of crystal seemed for wantonness to weep b. Dante once prepared to paint an angel c. With the sheep in the fold and the cows in their stalls d. Love again, song again, nest again, young again e. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, -Edgar Allen Poe
ASSIGNMENT:
2. Write a couplet that rhymes (two lines of poetry) with the following rhythm and meter: iambic pentameter
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Rhythm (adj.) iambic trochaic anapestic dactylic
Pattern Nicole nickel and Nicole nickel and
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ENGLISH Ms. LeCren, La Jolla High School
Name:________________________________________ Period:____ Date:______________________________
Poetry Worksheet: Rhyme If poetry is simply a collection of word games, then rhyme is one of the games!
CLASSWORK: Terms (with examples): rhyme: the similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words Example: fun and run are true or perfect rhymes because the vowel sounds are identical, preceded by different consonants rhyme scheme: the pattern of rhyme in a poem; each rhyme is assigned a letter Example: I WISH I wish that my room had a floor a I dont so much care for a door a But this walking around b Without touching the ground b Is getting to be quite a bore! a -Gelett Burgess masculine (single) rhyme: one syllable of a word rhymes with another Example: light/bright, rebound/sound, sky/nigh feminine (double) rhyme: two syllables of a word rhyme with another Example: lighting/fighting, indigestion/question triple rhyme: the last three syllables of a word rhyme with another Example: victorious/glorious, battering/shattering eye rhyme: rhymes that look alike, but do not sound the same Example: alone/done, remove/love, heard/beard ASSIGNMENT: 1. Can you write rhyme? a. Create a masculine rhyme for: old, fog, broom, underground, asleep
b. Create a feminine rhyme for: flower, winner, tower, glory, interviewer d. Create an eye rhyme for: mow, some, over, good, wind
c. Create a triple rhyme for: calculation, geography, unity, sensational, metrical
2. Determine the rhyme scheme for the following poems: SOME LITTLE BUG THE HAMMERS In these days of indigestion Noise of hammers once I heard It is often times a question Many hammers, busy hammers As to what to eat and what to leave alone; Beating, shaping, night and day For each microbe and bacillus Shaping, beating dust and clay Has a different way to kill us, To a place; saw it reared; And in time they always claim us for their own. Saw the hammers laid away. There are germs of every kind In any food that you can find And I listened, and I heard In the market or upon the bill of fare. Hammers beating, night and day Drinking waters just as risky In a palace newly reared As the so-called deadly wiskey, Beating it to dust and clay And its often a mistake to breathe the air. Other hammers, muffled hammers -Roy Atwell silent hammers of decay. -Ralph Hodgson 3. The poem called I WISH, in the example above, is a limerick. A limerick is a humorous poem with a rhyme scheme of aabba. The first, second, and last lines have eight syllables, and the third and fourth lines have five syllables. Read I WISH to yourself and listen to the rhythm of the lines. Can you imitate the rhythm and the rhyme scheme? Try writing your very own limerick. (Note: the limerick must be appropriate for school, and it must be original...no borrowing famous limericks!)

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ENGLISH

Ms. LeCren, La Jolla High School

Name:__________ Period: Date:

Rhythm (adj.) iambic trochaic anapestic dactylic

Pattern Nicole nickel and Nicole nickel and

ENGLISH Ms. LeCren, La Jolla High School

Name:__________ Period: Date:

c. Create a triple rhyme for: calculation, geography, unity, sensational, metrical

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