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AH020387 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Rhyme VS metre

what is the difference between rhyme and metre in poetry?

  

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METER is the cadence, or pattern of syllabic emphasis, that a poem follows. A good way to understand METER is to think about it in terms of music. Most songs are simply poems put to music.

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  • METER is the cadence, or pattern of syllabic emphasis, that a poem follows.
  • A good way to understand METER is to think about it in terms of music.
  • Most songs are simply poems put to music.
  • Think of the song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and you can hear the METER in that song.
  • The first two lines of the song are: Twinkle, twinkle little star How I wonder what you are If I CAPITALIZE the STRESSED syllables and leave the unstressed syllable as lower case, you can see the repeating pattern of STRESSED and unstressed syllables: TWINK-le, TWINK-le LIT-tle STAR HOW i WON-der WHAT you ARE.
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METER is the cadence, or pattern of syllabic emphasis, that a poem follows. A good way to understand METER is to think about it in terms of music. Most songs are simply poems put to music. Think of the song

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and you can hear the METER in that song.

The first two lines of the song are:

Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you
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