Poetry

Muhimmah Hudhriyati (13020117130034)

Calvina Izumi (13020117130037)

Salma Lista (13020117130063)

Metre

When we read a line of poetry, there will be a accent or stress on some syllables than others. There is a pattern in the line.

We think of lines of poetry, as a measure of a certain length, but it is can also be thought of as a path. Usually to describe the unit of stressed and unstressed syllables as "feet".

Verse form

'Verse' can be used an another word for 'poetry', and as the opposite of 'prose'. If prose is plain language, verse is language that has been turned over or around so that it becomes something different. 'Verse' can also be used to mean a group of lines (as in the 'verses' of a hymn), or an individual line.

Poets are free to choose how many syllables or stresses there should be in a line, so they can choose whether to arrange lines in groups and how many lines each group should contain. 'Verse form' is a general term for these structures, which have a strong visual dimension: they may be more obvious on the printed page than in poem read aloud.

Rhyme

Traditional verse forms are often defined, not just by metre and length of stanza, but also by rhyme. The four lines of the ballad stanza should rhyme ABCB, while the nine lines of the Spenserian stanza ABABBCBCC.

For many people, rhyme is the most fundamental feature of poetry, but poems don't always rhyme. One of the functions of rhyme seems to arrange words in such way that they trigger one another in our minds, and persist in our memories (majority of poems that someone heard and remember rhyme).