Rhyme is used in poetry, and occasionally in prose, to produce sounds that appeal to the ear and to unify and establish a poem's stanzaic form. End rhyme, or rhyme used at the end of a line to echo the end of another line, is most common. However, internal rhyme, occurring before the end of a line, is frequently used as an embellishment.
As with other poetic techniques, poets use it to suit their own purposes; for example William Shakespeare often used a rhyming couplet to mark off the end of a scene in a play.
Response Stance
Rhyming couplets are one of the simplest rhyme schemes in poetry. Reread couplets, including Shakespearean sonnets and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which are written in rhyming couplets. Discuss the rhyme scheme in light of the following two opposing viewpoints:
- Rhyme, if used in the hands of a deft poet, helps to unify a poem; it repeats a sound that links one concept to another, thus helping to determine the structure of a poem. When two subsequent lines rhyme, it is likely that they are thematically linked, or that the next set of rhymed lines signifies a slight departure. Especially in modern poetry, rhyme can indicate a poetic theme or the willingness to structure a subject that seems otherwise chaotic (ViruaLit).
- Rhyme, if used improperly, can lead to clichés and forced diction. W. H. Auden in The Dyer's Hand remarked: "Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, ...and dishonest".
Hi my name is Justin.L In the poem the walrus and the carpenter ther is a few rhymeing wordes like sun and fun it sounds like a song when you sing it it sounds really cool.
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ReplyDeleteThe poem we looked at is The Walrus And The carpender.The poem sounds like a musical and there is a pattern in the poem. I think lewis Carroll used rymes is to make the poem fun and more exiting.
Julia G
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"The Walrus and The Carpenter" is a rhyming peom my teacher thinks its kind of a chant with the rhyming. I like to rhyme when i am wrighting my peoms. There is a pattern to it for Ex: turn burn . THERE CARE these ones rhyme but they are not spelled the same. this peom is about the Carpenter tricking the oysters. BYE
Emma.D
ReplyDeleteThe poem we looked at is The Walrus And The
Carpenter it sounds like a musical and it is a
pattern.
Sumreen M
ReplyDeleteThe poem we were talking about was The Walrus And The Carpenter. There were rhyming words like might,bright and night.The music I felt was happy.
hi my name is Patrick.G the poem the warlus and the carpenter sounds lke a musical poem because when you read it it sounds like a song. it ryhme's and has a pattern at the starting of the poem. the pattern skipp's one line and keeps on goeing.
ReplyDeleteNatasha S,I love the way the story ryhmes the way the author made three stories in one. The poem I am talking about is The Walrus and The Carpenter. it was funny when the walrus and the Carpenter tricked the oyster. it was a fun story
ReplyDeleteHi my name is Stephen.w the poem we are talking about The Walrus and The Carpenter.it sounds like a song. It has a pattern.The poet rhymes every second line.
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ReplyDeleteIt is about a carpenter
who is tricking oysters and then the oysters start crying becouse the man wated to eat the oysters the oysters were telling the man plese plese dont eat me you were so nice to all of the oysters now you want to eat us that is so mean said the oysters the man said I am going to eat you m m m it is so good said the man the end