![]() ![]() ![]() Just like in music, repeating lines or phrases as well as a refrain or chorus can also create rhythm in poetry. For example, John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing begins: Poets might even use a blank space in the line to create silence. Here it gives the effect of time slowing down as she’s enjoying the taste of the fruit. Here the breaks force the reader to shift their focus onto a different word on each line – even though it is the same sentence. In modern poetry, a poet might also use line breaks to create rhythm.įor example, in William Carlos Williams’ To a Poor Old Woman the woman is eating plums: Traditionally, a poet uses metre – a regular pattern of stresses - to create a rhythmic pattern. Poets deliberately create rhythmical patterns to create particular effects. In music, a drummer or bass guitarist might create the beat for the rest of the band to follow, or a conductor might signal the beat to an orchestra or choir, but in poetry the rhythm is usually set by the ‘stresses’ in the words themselves.Īll spoken word has a rhythm formed by stressed and unstressed syllables. Within poetry the beat is the pattern of stresses within a line of verse. In metrical poetry, however, poets don’t count the number of syllables in each line they count the number of ‘stresses’. In types of poems, such as haikus, the writer counts the number of syllables in each line. In poetry, this pattern of the stressed and unstressed parts of words is called the metre, which is the number and type of rhythmic beats in a line of poetry. It can be helpful to think of rhythm in poetry as being like a beat in music. Poets make use of these natural stresses in language in order to create rhythm in poetry. Try saying it out loud to hear where the natural emphasis falls. In the word ‘banana’, for example, the central syllable is longer, or stressed, when you say it naturally: ba-na-na. ![]() We can call this different syllable emphasis stressed or unstressed. ![]() The second part of the word sounds shorter. The first part of the word is emphasised when we say it. Some syllables seem to have a long or short sound when they are pronounced. Table has two beats, or two syllables: ta-ble When we speak in ordinary conversation, we pronounce different parts of words, or syllables, separately. ![]()
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