Poetic Devices

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Poetic Devices
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Rhyme

• Final word sounds that repeat at the end of lines
  
• Example rhyme schemes ABAB, ABBA, AABB, ABCABC

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DUST OF SNOW

• The way a crowShook down on meThe dust of
  snowFrom a hemlock treeHas given my heartA
  change of moodAnd saved some partOf a day I had
  rued.

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Rhythm

• The recurring pattern of strong and weak syllabic
  stresses

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Song of Myself

• I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
• And what I assume you shall assume,
• For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to
  you.

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Meter

• A fixed pattern of accented and unaccented
  syllables in lines of fixed length to create
  rhythm
• AKA the beat of a poem

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• Jack and Jill went up the hill,  To fetch a pail
  of water
• Jack fell down, and broke his crown,
• And Jill came tumbling after.
• Then up Jack got and off did trot,  As fast as
  he could caper,
• To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob
• With vinegar and brown paper.

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Onomatopoeia

• The use of a word whose sound suggests its
  meaning, or a word that sounds like the thing it
  describes
• Examples bang, whoosh, splat

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Repetition

• Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for
  effect and emphasis
• Example Because I do not hope to turn
  againBecause I do not hopeBecause I do not hope
  to turn - Ash-Wednesday, T.S. Eliot

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Alliteration

• Repetition of the initial sounds of words
• She sells seashells by the seashore.

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Assonance

• Repetition of vowel sounds
• Heres an example I know this rose is
  only an ink-and-paper rose but see how it
  grows and goes on growing beneath your
  eyes - A Rose for Janet, by Charles Tomlinson

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Consonance

• Repetition of consonant sounds at the end of
  stressed syllables, without repeating vowel
  sounds
• Example a stroke of luck

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End Rhyme

• When the last word in a sentence rhymes with the
  last word in another sentence.
• Example
• There was an old woman
• who swallowed a fly.
• I dont know why
• she swallowed the fly.
• perhaps shell die.

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Internal Rhyme

• Sometimes the last word in a line will be echoed
  by a word placed at the beginning or in the
  middle of the following line.
• Example
• The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I
  pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and
  curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded,
  nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As
  of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber
  door.Tis some visitor, I muttered, tapping at
  my chamber doorOnly this, and nothing more.

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Mood

• Mood, or atmosphere, is the feeling created in
  the reader by a literary work or passage.
  Writers use many devices to create mood,
  including images, dialogue, setting, and plot.
  Often, a writer creates a mood at the beginning
  of a work and then sustains the mood throughout.
  Sometimes, however, the mood of the work changes
  dramatically

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Tone

• Tone is a reflection of a writers or speakers
  attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or
  other literary work. Tone may be communicated
  through words and details that express particular
  emotions and that evoke and emotional response
  from the reader.

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Stanza

• One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two
  or more lines usually characterized by a common
  pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines.

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Refrain

• One or more lines repeated before or after the
  stanzas of a poem
• Often used in songs.

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Tom Petty - Time to Move On

• It's time to move on, time to get goingWhat
  lies ahead, I have no way of knowingBut under my
  feet, baby, grass is growingIt's time to move
  on, it's time to get goingBroken skyline,
  movin' through the airportShe's an honest
  defectorConscientious objectorNow her own
  protectorBroken skyline, which way to love
  landWhich way to something betterWhich way to
  forgivenessWhich way do I goTime to move on,
  time to get goingWhat lies ahead, I have no way
  of knowingBut under my feet, baby, grass is
  growingIt's time to move on, it's time to get
  goingSometime later, getting the words
  wrongWasting the meaning and losing the
  rhymeNauseous adrenalineLike breakin' up a
  dogfightLike a deer in the headlightsFrozen in
  real timeI'm losing my mindIt's time to move
  on, time to get goingWhat lies ahead, I have no
  way of knowingBut under my feet, baby, grass is
  growingIt's time to move on, it's time to get
  going