 Poetry: March 13, 2013 Issue [#5564] |
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This week: The Variety of Rhyming Poetry Edited by: Kate - Writing & Reading  
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Greetings! I'm honored to be your guest editor for this week's WDC Poetry Newsletter.
What is a Poem?
"...the writing of poems....
the call of overhearing music that is not yet made."
Mary Kinzie, in A Poet's Guide to Poetry
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
"An Essay on Criticism," Alexander Pope
"Words written in verse may speak volumes
when those spoken do not."
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Greetings,
A poem is a form of verse that alludes to, but does not tell, what it is. That's the purpose of prose (or in verse, a metaphor perchance). Maybe an article or a class lesson will tell you what is or what to do, but a poem shows what can be. Yes, the old 'show' vs. 'tell' ~ poetry shows the image or idea envisioned by the writer of the poem. And, when you do, you will find that along with imagery and vision in all its variation, there is lyric repetition.
As poets, we seek a balance, when embracing the words we use to convey an image, idea, story, in verse, between repetition and variation, so as not to evoke somnambulism in the the listener, but to convey the image so that the listener can hear the sounds the poet does, and see, smell and taste the words being used to impart the image. Yes, I used a big word - poets play with words, crafting a poem from images real and imagined - not always 'big' in form, but in imagery.
Repetition in its most obvious is repeating whole lines or phrases, as in the villanelle. But sound can be repeated, and images or ideas or feelings be reinforced in more subtle variations.
Rhyming is a form of repetition. And one find rhyming in fixed and free verse. It's a poetic device that's versatile and creative; affording the poet myrad options for blending repetition and variation.
 End rhyme is what we most often think of when we consider rhyming poetry - where the last syllable(s) of lines rhyme, i.e, vast, cast, repast.
Internal rhyme, or middle rhyme is another device where the rhyme occurs within a line of verse - for example, Hear the sibilant symphony of sunset's twilight serenade - Here's I've use assonance and alliteration (matching vowel and consonant sounds) to create a lyric rhyme within a line. Reading aloud, you will find that internal rhyme is well met in free verse poetry.
Near rhyme or slanted rhyme is the use of words that sound nearly the same. For example, the hammock was taut; until on it he sat.
Sight rhyme or visual rhyme is the use of words that look, but don't sound, alike. For example, flood - good.
To augment the lyric sense of poetry, listen for the sound of the letters and syllables of the words; that they convey the image soft or firm that you are seeing and sensing when you write. For example, where but in a poem will you see "starlit cerulean skies" to describe twilight's first blush? Note that I've used assonance and alliteration in not only the quoted phrase but the question itself.
Read poetry classic and new aloud and you will feel the rhythm and hear the varied rhyme schemes evoked by the images the poet is sharing. Write your verse while speaking the words aloud and you will convey the lyric quality of your vision to pencil and paper for others also to see and hear, that they join your lyric journey.
I hope you've enjoyed this rhyming exploration.
My thanks to:
Mary Oliver's Rules for the Dance,
Mary Kinzie's, A Poet's Guide to Poetry.
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.html
Write On
Kate
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Check out some the variety of insightful and/or inspired verbal choreography by members of our Community ~ remember, Read Aloud ~ to read a poem, you give it breath
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Again, I never intentionally set out to rhyme. Sometimes it just happens.
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Kate
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Thank you for sharing this exploration with me ~ and whether or not you agree that the poem is created not by either art or craft, but by the active, inspired and intentional melding of the two, as Mr. Pope, not a poet but essayist, postulates, I invite you to experience the process, learn a new form or two, and see where it takes your own poetic expression.
If you remember nothing else of today's exploration, take to heart only this ~
The One Absolute Rule of Poetry =
Read ALL Poems Aloud!
Until we next meet,
Write On
Kate
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