MORE STUFF TO REMEMBER

• Rhyme Scheme:  usually expressed as letters:  AABB, ABAB etc.  Rhyming words tend to get more emphasis.  For example:
  • I sat next to the duchess at tea (A)
  • It was just how I thought it would be (A)
  • Her rumblings abdominal (B)
  • Were simply abominable (B)
  • And everyone thought it was me (A)
  • This poem is AABBA
• Meter: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. This is what gives poetry its rhythm.
• How do the following impact how we read poems  (all are sort of like traffic symbols that ;
  • Line breaks (tend to add a pause)
  • End of stanzas tend to add a longer pause
  • Punctuation
    • Periods–pause
    • Commas–shorter pauses