Rhyme is the repetition of similar sounds

in a certain scheme.

• It is the likeness of the terminal sounds of words

Frequently used at the end of a line or within the line.
 Types of Rhyme
1. Masculine Rhymes are those in which
the final syllable of the word or line is stressed.

Example : recall - befall

2. Feminine Rhymes are those in which
the first syllable is stressed.

Example :mountain - fountain

3. Triple Rhymes are those in which
All three syllables are identical.

Example : brotherly- motherly

4. Perfect Rhymes are rhymes of differently
Spelled words. They are rhymes of two words that
Are pronounced the same but spelled differently and
Have different meanings.

Example : two - too

5. Eye or Sight Rhymes are rhymes where
The words look as if they rhyme, but do not. These
Employ words that are spelled the same but pronoun
Differently.

Example : bone - gone

6. Slant or Oblique Rhymes use words with
An imperfect match of sounds.

Example : love - remove

Rhyme Scheme is a cluster of a certain pattern
found in the stanza
I wish I could caught the heart of yours A
Even it's a shooting star that falls A
B
It is absurd to tell you all of this
But all I want to is to get your sweet yes B
 
Don’t be afraid pretty lass C
coz this feeling I promise would last C
For the last time, let me tell you this D
You are the most amazing girl that this
D
heart Ever beats.
 1. Couplet is a verse of two successive lines tha
Form a single unit because they rhyme.
2. Terza rima is a verse form consisting of
three-line stanza.
3. Quatrain is a four-line stanza arranged in
Anoher scheme like abba or abab.
4. Sestet is a stanza of six iambic pentameter line
5. Rhyme Royal is a stanza of seven iambic
pentameter lines rhyming ababbcc.
6.Octaba Rima is an eight-line stanza rhyming
bababcc.

7. Spenserian is a stanza of nine lines rhyming

ababbcbcc.

English rhyme scheme that occurs generally

sonnets is abab-cdcd-efef-gg

. Italian rhyme scheme appears in abba-abba

de cde
0. Blank verse is regular in meter but does not
hyme. Also known as unrhymed poetry.

. Free verse is rhymed or unrhymed poetry

mposed without attention to conventional rules of met
Rhythm is the systematic stressing on accenting wor
nd syllables. It is the succession of stressed (accented=
nd unstressed (not accented = x) syllables.

Meter is the syllabic pattern expressed in terms of th

umber of feet to a line.
Monometer- one foot hexameter – six feet
Dimeter – two feet heptameter – seven feet

Trimeter – three feet octameter – eight feet

Tetrameter – four feet nonameter – nine feet
Pentameter – 5 feet decameter – ten feet
oot is the measure of one stressed or accented (a)
ccompanied by one pr two unstressed or unaccented (x
yllables.
. Iambus iscomposed of one unaccented syllable (
nd one accented syllable (a). = (x,a)
1 2 3 4 5

x a x a x a x a
x a
I blame / you not / for prais/ing Cae/sar so.
Iambic pentameter
2. Trochee is composed of one accented syllable (a)
nd one unaccented syllable (x). = (a,x)
Trochaic tetrameter
1 2 3 4

a x a x a x a x

Double / double / toil and /trouble.

. Anapest is composed of two unaccented syllables
xx) and one accented syllable (a). = (xxa)
1 2 3 4

x x a x x a x x a x x a

There was si /lence supreme! / not a shriek,/not a scream.

Anapestic tetrameter
. Dactyl is composed of one accented syllable
Dactylic
a) and two unaccented syllables (xx). = (a,xx)pentameter
1 2 3 4 5 6

a x x a x x a x x a x x a x x a x
This is the /forest pri / meval,the/ murmuring/pine and the/hemlock.

5. Spondee is a foot of two accented syllables. (aa)

. Pyrrhic is a foot of two unaccented syllables. (xx
7. Hemlock is a trochaic foot in a line of dactyls.
Hypermetrical line is a line where there is an excess
ne unaccented syllable (x).

Masculine line is a line ends with accented syllable (a

Feminine line is a line ends with unaccented

syllable (x).
1 whole :Write a 14-line free verse poem.
Make your own title.
Choose one topic from the following:
- Death
- Life
- Education
- Unity
- Religion
- Democracy.