Transcript Ch 12: Rhythm & Meter

Poetry Day 21
AP Literature:
Freire Charter School
Ms. Stacey
Friday
April 20, 2015
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4.20.15 Class Agenda & Updates
What is due today?
• Ch 11 Poems
What are our objectives today?
• Ch 12 Notes + Example
Who has something to make up?
• Najay, Zahkeyah
Who’s working in the WC today?
• Breonna
Ch 12: Rhythm & Meter
RHYTHM: Any “wave-like” recurrence of motion
in sound. In speech, our words “rise” and
“fall” depending on words' syllables...
→ Accented / Stressed syllables are given more
emphasis. Try saying these words out loud:
toDAY
toMORrow
YESterday
Ch 12: Rhythm & Meter
Some poets purposefully arrange
their lines to create a noticeable
and repeated rhythm of sound
based on these syllabic “ups” and
“downs”...
...but we still must pay attention
to meaning, as it can affect how a
word sounds: Rhetorical Stress
“I don’t
believe
you…”
Ch 12: Rhythm & Meter
Rhythm is also based on PAUSES:
→ Punctuation
→ The end of a poetic line
a) end-stopped line (we should pause at
the end of the line)
b) run-on line (the lines moves on without
pause to the next line)
c) caesura (pauses that occur within lines)
Ch 12: Rhythm & Meter
But wait!
Not all poems have a set
rhythm...
… these are called FREE
VERSE
METER
Meter: the identifying characteristic of rhythmic
language that we can “tap our feet to”
→ Poems written in a set meter are called
“metrical”
METER
The basic unit of metrical verse is the FOOT
A FOOT is composed of:
(1) accented syllable + (1-2) unaccented syllables
before
today
[iambic]
glory
intervene multiple
daily
understand wonderful
[trochaic] [anapestic] [dactylic]
*SPONDEE = two accented syllables (“football”)
METER
To measure metrical verse, count the number of lines:
1 lines = monometer
2 lines = dimeter
3 lines = trimeter
4 lines = tetrameter
5 lines = pentameter
6 lines = hexameter
Groups of lines =
stanzas
METER
So what about when the poet “breaks” the
rhythm? This is known as metrical variation
and it is likely intentional—and significant!
1) SUBSTITUTION (replacing the regular foot
with another one)
2) EXTRAMETRICAL (extra syllables)
3) TRUNCATION (leaving out an unaccented
syllable)
SCANSION
The process of defining the metrical form.
Let's Practice!
“Virtue” by George Herbert
Stanza 1
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky;
The dew shall weep thy fall to-night,
For thou must die.
“Virtue” by George Herbert
Stanza 2
Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye;
Thy root is ever in its grave,
And thou must die.
“Virtue” by George Herbert
Stanza 3
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie;
My music shows ye have your closes,
And all must die.
“Virtue” by George Herbert
Stanza 4
Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like season'd timber, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives.
HOMEWORK
Read, Annotate, and Scan
the poem “Because I could not
stop for death”; post your
response to blog prompt
Begin reviewing for
Thursday’s test on Ch 10-14
Begin work on OEQ
Presentation (in-class Fri 4/24)