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Poetic Line

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Poetic Line

A example of a poetic line is Enjambment or free verse run-on. A enjambment is a continuation of a complete idea (sentence or clause) from one line to the next line or a couplet with out a pause. An example of this is:

"I shall never see

A poem as lovely as a tree"

 

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/pmglossary/.html

 

The function~ Run-on lines can form groups they can simply act to increase the fluidity of the poetry by decreasing the importance of the verse boundaries. It also adds to the rhythm of the poem.

 

http://oregonstat.edu/instinct/ger341/poetics.htm

 

Another fact about the enjambment is that it differs from an end-stopped line where the grammactical& logical sense is completed with in the line, an example of this is:

That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,

Looking as if she were alive. I call

that piece a wonder, how

The 1st line was end-stopped and the 2nd was enjambled

 

http://highered.mcgrawh-hill.com/sites/0072405228/student_view0/poetic-glossary.html

 

Eboni C.

6th Hour


Free Verse

 

Free Verse is basically poetry that is not based on the use of regular meter, or rhyme. Although free verse has no regular meter, it is allowed to have rhythm and rhyme, but rhyme is up to the author. Free verse can also make use of alliteration and other poetic devices like similes, metaphors, personification, etc.…

Often times, if free verse is read aloud it is easy to find the different lines of the poem, without the use of rhythm or rhyme.

 

An original example of free verse…

 

Marie sings wonderfully to my soul

Softly,

Sweetly,

Ever so gently,

Marie sings for my happiness.

She is my love.

 

Works Cited

"Free Verse." 06 August 2004. 17 Jan. 2006 http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/freeverse.html

"Creative Writing for teens." 2006. 17 Jan. 2006 http://teenwriting.about.com/library/weekly/aa041403g.html

 

Leron A.

6th Hour


Poetic Meter

 

 

Meter is the rhythmic pattern of poem. It allows you to brake down speech into stressed and unstressed beats/syllables. Some examples of meter are trochee, spondee, trochaic tetrameter, anapestic trimeter, dactylic hexameter, and the most common type is iambic pentameter.

 

EXAMPLES:

-Iambic Pentameter

 

[i WANT/to GO/to REST/au RANT/this EVE]

 

-Trochaic Tetrameter(4 trochees,8 syllables)

 

[TELL me/NOT in/MOURN-ful/NUM-bers]

 

-Anapestic Trimeter(3 anapests,9 syllable0

 

[And the SOUND/of a VOICE/that is STILL]

 

-Dactylic Hexameter(6 dactyls,17 syllables,a trochee replaces the last dactyl)

 

[ThIS is the/FOR est pri/MEval,the/MUR muring/PINE and the/HEM locks.]

 

Citation

Minot, Stephen Three Genres, the writing of Poetry, Fiction and Drama Prentice Hall; 6 Sub edition, 1997.

 

Devon A.

6th hour

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