Summary of Poetry

Kadek Ayu Febriyanti K. (040)

M Yusril Nur Ramadhan (043)

Metre

1. When you read a line of poetry you will almosr certainly place more accent or stress on some syllables than on others. This is what we called metre.

2. Lines like the opening of "The Good-Morrow" has been around for a very long tine ; so long that we still refer to them in Ancient Greek : five-stressed metre, as a literary form, is pentameter.

Verse form

1. Verse form is a general term for how many lines each group should contain and a group of lines printed together is usually referred to as a stanza.

2. Different kinds of stanza are simply named after the number of lines that they contain, for example common stanza name are couplet (two lines), tercet (three), sestet (six), and octet (eight)

Rhyme

1. One of the functions of rhyme seems to be precisely that : to arrange words in such a way that they trigger one another in our minds, and persist in our memories.

2. Perfect ryhme is when the vowel and final consonant of the last syllable of the first line, 'souls', ryhmes perfectly with the vowel and final consonant of the last syllable of the third line, '-trols': they are aurally identical.