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Looking at the layout of a poem and listening for sound patterns – particularly rhyme and rhythm – helps to identify the form. Stanzas separate poems into groups of lines. One was of describing is stanzas is by saying how many lines it has: • A tercet is a stanza that is three lines long • A quatrain is four lines • A quintrain is five lines • A sestet is six • A septet seven • An octave or octet is – you guessed it – eight lines long In his poem, The Eagle , Alfred, Lord Tennyson breaks his poem into two stanzas: He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring’d with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. The first stanza describes the eagle perched high on the mountain and the second stanza describes it swooping down. Breaking the poem into two separate events helps to increase the drama. The final word on each line within a stanza rhymes: hands/lands/stands and crawls/walls/falls. A rhyme scheme of AAA BBB. Each line in the poem has eight syllables and it has a distinct rhythm, called iambic tetrameter , when you say it aloud. There are many different forms of poetry. Common poetry forms, such as the ballad, sonnet, haiku, limerick, ode, epic and acrostic, have specific rules. An acrostic is a poem where the first letter of each line spells out a word, vertically. A limerick is a funny five-line poem with a rhyme scheme AABBA. A haiku has three li...

Answer A chiasm (also called a chiasmus) is a literary device in which a sequence of ideas is presented and then repeated in reverse order. The result is a “mirror” effect as the ideas are “reflected” back in a passage. Each idea is connected to its “reflection” by a repeated word, often in a related form. The term chiasm comes from the Greek letter chi, which looks like our letter X. Chiastic pattern is also called “ring structure.” The structure of a chiasm is usually expressed through a series of letters, each letter representing a new idea. For example, the structure ABBA refers to two ideas (A and B) repeated in reverse order (B and A). Often, a chiasm includes another idea in the middle of the repetition: ABXBA. In this structure, the two ideas (A and B) are repeated in reverse order, but a third idea is inserted before the repetition (X). By virtue of its position, the insertion is emphasized. Some chiasms are quite simple. The common saying “When the going gets tough, the tough get going” is chiastic. The words going and tough are repeated, in reverse order, in the second half of the sentence. The structure is ABBA. Another example of a chiasm, also with the ABBA structure, is Benjamin Franklin’s axiom “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” Other chiasms are more complex, even spanning entire poems. Many passages in the Bible exhibit chiastic structure. For example, Jesus’ words in Mark 2:27 are in the form of a chiasm: “The Sabbath was made for man, n...

Beneath all the nuances of melodies and lyrics, most songs are built from the same basic parts—some kind of sequence of verse, chorus, bridge, and so on. For writing a song, learning to play someone else’s song, or communicating with other musicians, being able to identify these parts and patterns is an essential skill. Let’s take a lookatcommon song forms used in rock, country, folk, and pop, and consider how their components function and fit together. Check outthe Spotify playlists belowfor some classic examples. Verse only The simplest song form has only one section, the verse—the same melody and chord progression repeats through the entire thing while the words change. This is the traditional ballad form, as usedin the following songs.As these examples suggest, the verse-only form is a great storytelling vehicle (murder and tragedy are optional but recommended). Since the music isn’t changing, listeners can focus on the unfolding narrative. So you might consider writing in this form when the story is the most important aspect of the song. Verse with refrain Some songs use the verse-only form, but each verse ends (or sometimes begins) with the same phrase or line—the refrain. The refrain usually contains the song’s title too., as in Johnny Cash’s “I Walk the Line,” Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” and the Woody Guthrie/Wilco/Billy Bragg song “California Stars.” The line can be a little blurry between a refrain and a chorus (covered next). The difference is t...

Rhyme Definition What is rhyme? Here’s a quick and simple definition: A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words. Rhyming is particularly common in many types of poetry, especially at the ends of lines, and is a requirement in perfect rhyme, in which the stressed syllables of the words, along with all subsequent syllables, share identical sounds, as in "pencil" and "stencil." Perfect rhyme is so common, in fact, that the word "rhyme" is often used simply to refer to perfect rhymes. However, there are actually a variety of other types of rhymes, such as imperfect rhyme or Some additional key details about rhyme: • Rhyme is used in poetry, as well as in songwriting, not just because it's pleasant to hear, but because the repetition of sounds (especially when it's consistent) lends a sense of rhythm and order to the language. • Contrary to what many people think, words don't have to share perfectly identical sounds in order to qualify as a type of rhyme. Many words that share similar sounds—including some words that only share a single letter—fall into one of the categories of rhyme we describe below. • Poems that use rhymes at the end of each line often do so according to a repeating, predetermined pattern called a Rhyme Pronunciation Here's how to pronounce rhyme: rime Types of Rhyme Most people, when they think about what constitutes a rhyme, are actually thinking about one type of rhyme in particular, called perfect rhyme, which only includes words wit...

“ For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps, who committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth; and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously; and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed” (1 Peter 2:21-24). In this passage, Peter explained that Jesus left an example for us to follow. There are many people we may look up to as examples in life – parents, peers, older Christians, successful individuals, and more. Yet Jesus was not just an example; He was the perfect example. This passage shows us how He left a perfect example for us. An Example of Suffering Peter began by saying, “ Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example” (1 Peter 2:21). Jesus knew He would die on the cross, even telling His disciples ahead of time that it would happen (Matthew 16:21); yet He did not try to avoid it. He knew why it was going to happen – He would suffer and die for our sins (1 Peter 2:24; Isaiah 53:4-5) – but He loved us enough to endure it. He even had the power to prevent His death, having authority to call down “ more than twelve legions of angels” (Matthew 26:53-54); but He did not change His mind. He suffered beyond what any of us will ever have to endure. In doing so, he l...

There are many types of poem in the world, and even one particular verse form can be written in a variety of ways: to take just one example, there is the sonnet, but there are Petrarchan sonnets and Shakespearean sonnets and Spenserian sonnets, all of them requiring a rather different rhyme scheme. Below, we introduce some of the commonest, and most important, types of poem there are, and provide an example of each poem type. This list shows just how multifarious the world of poetry can be. Below, we find poems that rhyme and poems that do not, short poems and longer poems, poems with a fixed length and those with no set number of lines whatsoever. It really does depend on the verse form. Lyric. Perhaps the most ubiquitous type of poem, and therefore the perfect place to begin our odyssey of verse forms and varieties, the lyric is named for the lyre, the harp-like instrument played since classical times. Sappho, the pioneering ancient Greek love poet, wrote short poems expressing her feelings of desire and love and regret and heartache and a myriad other things, and her poems were meant to be accompanied by music played on the lyre. Thus the ‘lyric’ was born. These days, a lyric poem is essentially any poem which expresses the thoughts and feelings of a speaker, rather than telling a story, or teaching us a moral lesson, and so forth. As you can imagine, this is quite a broad definition, and that is why the lyric is literally everywhere in modern verse. Here’s a brief exam...