Sounds in Poetry

Sounds in Poetry

Assonance 1. Assonance: The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words. Example: "swift Camilla skims"

Alliteration 2. Alliteration: The repetition of identical consonant sounds that begin syllables in close patterns Example: "While pensive poets painful vigils keep"

Sounds in Poetry 3. Onomatopoeia: A blend of consonant and vowel sounds designed to imitate or suggest a situation or action. Example: "buzz" 4. Euphony (good sound--smooth and flowing) and cacophony (bad sound-choppy and harsh).

True or Exact Rhyme 5. Rhyme: words containing identical final syllables Examples: Weigh Grey Say Bouquet Fiancé

Eye Rhyme a. Eye rhyme: words that look alike but sound different. Examples: Bough Cough Through Enough

Slant Rhyme b. Slant rhyme: Words that almost rhyme but don't exactly. Example: "sun, noon“ Emily Dickinson uses a great deal of slant rhyme.

Double rhymes c. Double rhymes (formerly called "feminine rhyme"): Rhymes using words of two syllables in which the heavy stress falls on the first syllable. Also called trochaic rhymes. Examples: SEAsons, REAsons HABit, RABbit

Triple Rhyme d. Triple rhyme: Rhymes using words of three or more syllables in which the heavy stress falls on any syllable other than the last. Also called dactylic rhymes. Example: MaCAVity, GRAVity. WARily, MERRily