Monday, October 13, 2008

Playing With Poetry

-Rhythm: movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like. or a patterned repetition of a motif, formal element, etc., at 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: the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter.

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

-Consonance: the use of the repetition of consonants or consonant patterns as a rhyming device.

-Assonance: rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words.

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