Poems sounds are full of meanings, a poet chooses words for meaning as well as sound.
"Poetry is a vocal art", and it is hard to experience a poem unless you hear it.
"YOU MUST READ ALOUD"
"Dirge", a chant, a lament, hymn..requiem
Robert Frost said..."a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart..."
Rhythm, onomatopoeia...a copy, a mirror image, repetition, a reproduction.
A poet uses open vowels, expletives, monosyllabic words, predictable rhymes, long/slow lines....
The effects of a passage come from an interaction of many strategies perhaps.
Manipulate sound to control the rhythm.
Iambic Pentameter: when lines are written in a meter of five iambic feet.
"The baseball game was televised at nine"
"Trochee-an accented syllable followed by an unstressed one
Anapest-two unaccented syllables followed by a stressed one
dactyl-an accented syllable followed by two stresses ones
Spondee-a pair of accented syllables
Caesura-a short pause often signaled by a mark of punctuation such as a comma.
Iambic-one unstressed syllable followed by a stresses syllable
One can scan a poem to sort out its metrical pattern.
FREE VERSE- a poem which expresses without any governing rules of pattern or stresses.
"The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe
Wow...long, and beautiful. tongue-tied as I tried to read it after a day of work. Plus, trying to read it aloud as my son watched TV, quite a bad idea! But, I did see an artist work of this poem set in the shape of a raven...it was beautiful. And, Poe is/was a genius with prose and balance...a cool expression of words that seem to take a mind to air and prick the ear to beauty. After reading these wonderful creations, I take pause at even trying to write on my own!
"And the silkin sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain"
Wahoo...what a gift
"Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken"
"And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor"
This poem is so sad and yet so beautiful, I wish I could hear someone read it right now.
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