Before too long, she saw that they were ready to discuss. Sneed walked around the room, her students chattered away. “Work with your partner to answer two questions: (1) Are the rhythm and meter the same for the other stanzas of this poem? (2) Is the rhyming scheme the same in all stanzas?”Īs Ms. But the fourth verse rhymes with the second, so we name it B as well.” The third doesn’t rhyme either, so it’s marked C. Here, the second verse does not rhyme with the first, so we call it B. Any verses in a stanza that rhyme will also be labeled A. “See how only two end words in the first verse rhyme? To label this, we always use A for the first verse. “We look at the last syllable or two of each verse,” she said. When we analyze poetry, we’ll be looking closely at the rhythm and meter.”
If you look more closely, you’ll see that every other syllable is stressed. The pattern of stressed syllables is called meter. “Notice that the first verse has four stressed syllables and the third has three. “I’m glad you like poetry,” smiled the teacher. “Read the first stanza with me, and we’ll clap the beat.” The kids smiled as they read and clapped, some getting a little more exuberant than necessary. “We’ll explore the rhythm first,” she said. Sneed displayed a familiar nursery rhyme, “ Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Modeling the TermsĪfter a quick introduction to terminology, Ms.
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