Music, When Soft Voices Die

Redux: Alliteration, Assonance, and All the Rest

 
Rhymey Timey Chimey Limey
Dippy Dimey, Little Rhyme
 
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lPerfect (Or True or Full) Rhyme lA Vowel Sound Followed by (a) Consonant Sound(s) in the Final Stressed Syllable of a Line

§Strong:  bored/lord        Weak Double: boring/warring               Weak Triple: mystery/history

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Imperfect (Or Slant or Half-) Rhyme lThey Share Sounds, Yet Differ by a Sound
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bullet §board/beard
bulletboard/boat
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lRime Riche lThey Sound Alike, They Look Different
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bullet §bored/board
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lEye Rhyme lThey Look Similar, But Sound Different
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bullet §bough/tough
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The Sound Must Seem
to Echo the Sense
 
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uHeroic Couplet (generally Closed Couplets) –
bulletPerfectly Rhymed (generally) couplets in Iambic Pentameter
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uBallad Stanza –
bulletABCB in alternating Iambic Tetrameter and Iambic Trimeter Lines
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uRime Royal –
bulletABABBCC, Iambic Pentameter
bulletSpenserian Stanza –
bullet9-line ABABBCBCC stanza where first 8 are in Iambic Pentameter and the last is an Alexandrine (Iambic Hexameter)
bullet Ottava Rima
bullet –ABABABCC in Iambic Pentameter
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uSapphic Stanza –
bulletQuatrains with 3 11-syllable lines and 1 5-syllable one
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uBlank Verse –
bulletUnrhymed Iambic Pentameter
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uElegiac Meter –
bullet Alternating Dactylic Hexameter and Pentameter lines
 
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Rhythm

Rhythm is simply the naturally occurring stresses and unstresses, beats and offbeats of speech. 
 

oFor rhythm to be rhythm, there must be repeated sonic events differentiated from other sonic events.

 

Meter

oMeter is the organization of rhythm into regular units of beat and offbeat (stress and unstress) over time.
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So What's What?

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§Duple Meters
bulletRising (Iambic) –
bulletFalling (Trochaic)
 
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§Triple Meters –
bulletRising (Anapestic) –
bulletFalling (Dactylic)