notes of P45-75
Line
The obvious difference between prose and poetry is that prose is printed but poetry is written in lines.
word verse can carries the meaning of "to turn"
Length and Rhythm
Variation
The singsong poem is a dull poem. Variation wakes us up with its touch of difference. I think it's just like singing when we read a poem there are different tone or rhythm.
lines of good poetry are apt to be a little irregular.
" On Windsor Marsh, I saw the spider die When Thrown into the browels of fierce fire: But who can plumb the sinking of that soul.
In this line they use the iambic pattern, this line from the Lowell quotation can be scanned as follows, and the phrase" that soul" be made more readable.
The beginning of the line and the end of the line
The most important point in the line is the end of the line. The second most important point is the beginning of it. When we read a poem we have to read the start and the end.
more poem begin with iambic meter than any other construction. Because iambic is more relax invitational---natural. Feminine endings tend to blur the end rhyme. So does slant rhyme.
The repetition of lines, or the use of a refrain line, is a source of enjoyment. After a repetition or a refrain, the reader, given the pattern clue that the next lines are obviously going to be different.
Turning the Line
Always, at the end of each line there exists---inevitably---a brief pause. This pause is part of the motion of the poem, as hesitation is part of the dance.
The writer of non metrical verse also has this end of the line pause to work with and can choose among various ways of handling it. Turning the line, in free verse, is associated not only with the necessary decision at each turn.
Conclusion
Not two poems will sound exactly alike, even though both are written in, say, iambic tetrameter rhyming couplets. The poem need to be reliable.
Length, breadth, and Rhyme
Rhyming patterns include everything from simple rhyming coupletsto the terza rima and the Spenserian stanza
It can be said with certainty that a stanza break will inevitably result in either a felt hesitation or a felt acceleration.
Syllabic Verse
In syllabic verse, a pattern is set up, and rigorously followed, in which the number of syllables in each of the lines of the first stanzas exactly repeated in the following stanzas.
Because of the strictness of syllable-count, and the inevitable variety of stress-pattern, syllabic verse creates a music that is highly regular and at the same time filled with engaging counterpoint.
Free verse
The Free verse poem is by no means exempted from the necessity of having a design, though one must go about it in rather different ways, since there is no external pattern to be followed.
The free verse poem sets up, in terms of sound and line, a premise or an expectation, and then, before the poem finished, it makes a good response to this premise.
Tone and content
Perhaps free verse was a product of the times. Perhaps it resulted from a desire on the part of writers at the beginning of this century to alter the tone of the poem.
In order for the tone of the poem to change, the line had to change
The line naturally would have to affiliate it self more with the iambs and dactyls of natural speech patterns---the forward-reaching feeling of speech--- than the measure of meter.
The obvious difference between prose and poetry is that prose is printed but poetry is written in lines.
word verse can carries the meaning of "to turn"
Length and Rhythm
the first picture is about the four facts of Length and Rhythm\
the second picture is about the metrical lines and the metrical feet and symbols is mostly about rhythm in a line.
After use these strategies to read the examples I have different feelings, different rhythm may gave me different information of the poem. When we want to impress some words we may use the heavy stress
In the tetrameter lines there us a sense of quickness, spareness, even a little agitation. The Trimeter line can evoke an even more intense of agitation and celerity
In Metrical verse, the lines may be all of the same length, but in may cases the pattern includes lines of varying length. In The Ancient Mariner the lines have same rhythm. The foot is iambic, a light stress and a heavy stress followed.
Constancy
The readers quickly enters the rhythmic pattern if a poem. It takes no more than two or three lines for a rhythm and the readers may feel good to read this poem.
The author has to attract the reader to read, so that the author has to use some good rhythm and let them feel pleasure to read.
The singsong poem is a dull poem. Variation wakes us up with its touch of difference. I think it's just like singing when we read a poem there are different tone or rhythm.
lines of good poetry are apt to be a little irregular.
" On Windsor Marsh, I saw the spider die When Thrown into the browels of fierce fire: But who can plumb the sinking of that soul.
In this line they use the iambic pattern, this line from the Lowell quotation can be scanned as follows, and the phrase" that soul" be made more readable.
The beginning of the line and the end of the line
The most important point in the line is the end of the line. The second most important point is the beginning of it. When we read a poem we have to read the start and the end.
more poem begin with iambic meter than any other construction. Because iambic is more relax invitational---natural. Feminine endings tend to blur the end rhyme. So does slant rhyme.
The repetition of lines, or the use of a refrain line, is a source of enjoyment. After a repetition or a refrain, the reader, given the pattern clue that the next lines are obviously going to be different.
Turning the Line
Always, at the end of each line there exists---inevitably---a brief pause. This pause is part of the motion of the poem, as hesitation is part of the dance.
The writer of non metrical verse also has this end of the line pause to work with and can choose among various ways of handling it. Turning the line, in free verse, is associated not only with the necessary decision at each turn.
Conclusion
Not two poems will sound exactly alike, even though both are written in, say, iambic tetrameter rhyming couplets. The poem need to be reliable.
Length, breadth, and Rhyme
Rhyming patterns include everything from simple rhyming coupletsto the terza rima and the Spenserian stanza
these are the rhyming patterns.
The sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines; traditionally it uses the iambic pentamenter line, although poets have written sonnets in tetrameter, or in some other way varied the pure form.
Italian sonnet: abba abba cdd cee
English or Shakespearean sonnet: abab cdcd efef gg
The stanza
Stanza is the term by which we designate a group of lines in a poem that is separated by an extra amount of space from other groups of lines, or other stanzas.
It may be useful, when considering the stanza, to recall the paragraph in prose, which indicates a conclusion of one thought and the beginning of another, a sensible division.It can be said with certainty that a stanza break will inevitably result in either a felt hesitation or a felt acceleration.
Syllabic Verse
In syllabic verse, a pattern is set up, and rigorously followed, in which the number of syllables in each of the lines of the first stanzas exactly repeated in the following stanzas.
Because of the strictness of syllable-count, and the inevitable variety of stress-pattern, syllabic verse creates a music that is highly regular and at the same time filled with engaging counterpoint.
Free verse
The Free verse poem is by no means exempted from the necessity of having a design, though one must go about it in rather different ways, since there is no external pattern to be followed.
The free verse poem sets up, in terms of sound and line, a premise or an expectation, and then, before the poem finished, it makes a good response to this premise.
Tone and content
Perhaps free verse was a product of the times. Perhaps it resulted from a desire on the part of writers at the beginning of this century to alter the tone of the poem.
In order for the tone of the poem to change, the line had to change
The line naturally would have to affiliate it self more with the iambs and dactyls of natural speech patterns---the forward-reaching feeling of speech--- than the measure of meter.
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