 Poetry: September 07, 2011 Issue [#4597] |
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This week: Is Rhyming Poetry Passe? NO WAY!!! Edited by: Kate - Writing & Reading  
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Poetry is a verbal snapshot of an 'otherworld,' - conveying an image of a time, a place, an event, real or created by the Muse Poetic. Reading aloud, tasting the words, continues the creative conversation, and makes the 'otherworld' real and dynamic for both the poet and the reader/speaker in an immediate way that straight prose very rarely does.
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
- Edgar Allan Poe
"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."
- Sylvia Plath
Reading aloud, poetry is meant to be spoken, a conversation between the poet and listener/reader, who each imparts his/her perception upon the images the words convey. In this way, the reader/speaker leaves his/her physical surroundings for a moment and enters the 'otherworld' of the poet.
"To have great poets, there must be great audiences."
- Walt Whitman
"A word after a word after a word is power."
- Margaret Atwood
I am honored to be your guest host today for the Writing.Com Poetry Newsletter and invite you to share the following exploration with me  .
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Greetings, fellow writers of lyric verse and prose.
When you read aloud the poetry you write and the poetry of others, you will find that rhyme is intrinsic to the rhythm of a poem. You will see that poetry and rhyme are as closely related as cereal and milk, as wine and cheese, as babies and wet bottoms And just as there are many varieties of cereal, different wines and cheeses and, okay, different ways to tend the wet bottoms, there are many varieties of rhyming poems. These include traditional forms like sonnets, stanzas, octaves and lais, as well as more modern forms such as the novelinee and the decuain. Although there are many different styles of rhyming poetry, there are similarities between those styles. If you listen to the words you read, you will find similarities between the traditional styles from Europe, Great Britain, Asia and the Middle East.
Poetry styles of continental Europe include forms like the Petrarchan sonnet, the rhyme royale, the villanelle, as well as the ancient, but still written, ode form of ancient Greece and Rome. From the British Isles we enjoy the limerick, and the English sonnet, along with traditional Celtic forms, which use creative linking and nested rhyme schemes. Form Asia, we have the pantoum and the saraband, among others, which use internal rhyme (rhyming a word from the middle of one line with another word somewhere in the next line). The Middle East offers some of the oldest poetic styles still in use, like the ghazal and the rubaiyat, which offer couplet or triplet rhyming sequences of final words (not just one end rhyme).
Modern rhyming forms, like the decuain and the terzanelle are just as lyric and and rhythmic as the long-standing traditional forms; but different in that some make use of half-rhymes (matching final consonants, i.e., spent and ant = the nt in each) and rhyming words in the same line. Another example of rhyming verse is the use of assonance, matching vowel sounds either as end-rhymes or within a line (i.e., bake and hate); and how about alliteration where consonants are matched (i.e., shaft, short, ship). So we can see (and hear that rhyming poetry is alive and well today, as modeled after traditional forms as well as in free verse and blank verse. Poets learn the craft and then make it their own.
So what's the purpose of rhyming in poetry? Why do we choose to use it - in any of its myriad forms. Well, it is pleasing to the ear, it creates memorable images, and it helps to focus the reader's attention on the image being conveyed as well as marking the end of an image or thought and to prepare the listener for the next. Poets use rhyming in a variety of ways. For example, Shakespeare often used a rhyming couplet to mark the end of a scene in one of his plays.
Now, I go to the one rule I hold true in poetry, that it be spoken as a conversation between the poet and listener/reader, who each imparts his/her perception upon the images the words convey. For a moment, the reader leaves the tactile world mundane and enters the 'otherworld' of the poet. Reading aloud, one not only feels the rhythm and hears the internal rhyme, but can see, taste, and imagine the image, idea, thing or place the poet conveys.
Now, before I invite you to read some of the myriad varieties of rhyming poetry penned by members of our Community, I'd like you to read aloud the following from Walt Whitman, by many considered the father of free verse -
"Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem;
I whisper with my lips close to your ear,
I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you."
Excerpt from To You, from Leaves of Grass
- Walt Whitman
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Now, what you've been waiting for - some enticing, rhythmic, creative verse. You'll find such variety - including fantasy, praise, steampunk Read each aloud and listen for the rhyme, both end-rhymed and internal, and share your thoughts with the writer, in Writing.Com 'Tradition' with a review
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Okay, now how about trying the creative versatile rhythmic rhyme yourself - as well as some more good reading
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Try out the Sonnet and Ghazal -
Or this daily challenge with prompts or a daily form to try -
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Thank you for sharing this exploration with me and I hope you see (and hear) as I do the versatile, creative and vital lyric rhythm in rhyme, that is intrinsic to verse from ancient times through today. Kind of like our Community of versatile, creative writers of poetry and prose.
Until we next meet, as we wind down Writing.Com's Eleventh Birthday celebrations, I invite you to continue, as we celebrate the start of Year Twelve, to write and share your lyric verse and to read aloud (and review the creative verse of our fellow writers.
Write On
Kate
Kate - Writing & Reading
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