Rhythm
1. Snodgrass, WD. “The Use of Meter.” Southern Review. 1999.
The above source is a comprehensive review of the use of meter in poetry, written for a peer-reviewed journal. It provides an explanation of syllabic verse, along with a discussion of stress verse. It also discusses the restraints of structured meter in poetry, while acknowledging that it is still a very valid form of art. It gives a brief review of the different styles of different poets, and their style’s effectiveness in expression.
2. Smith, Vivion. “What is Poetry”. English Works!. 2 June 2001. English Tutoring and Writing Center. 21 June 2007. < http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/literature/poetry.htl >
This website is designed for students that need some tutoring in English, mainly the terms needed to understand writing in literature. The literary term rhythm is defined as “the repetition of stress within a poem. It is the entire movement or flow of the poem as affected by rhyme, stress, diction and organization” (Smith). The organization of the poems is effected by the different flow of verses, such the stanzas poetic unit with two lines that rhyme versus three lines. This is a credible website to visit if one needs to understand the different combinations of rhymes in a poem.
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Keppel-Jones, David. Strict Metrical Tradition : Variations in the Literary Iambic Pentameter From Sidney and Spenser to Matthew Arnold. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2001. 23 June 2007 .
The main purpose of this website is provide information on metrical tradition. It focuses on different aspects of rhythm. The website defines the term rhythm as the beats in a line of verse that form a coherent group. The website describes analyzing texts using the literary term by paying attention to the beats in a sentence. An understanding of the literary term helps better understand the texts because you can identify when rhythm is being used. The website is credible because the author is clearly indicated.
4. Rhythm. Oxford English Dictionary. June 9, 2007.
- The purpose of this website it to give a definition of the word “rhythm”.
- The word is defined as, “Riming or rimed verse; a form or variety of this”
- Rhythm is used in poetry to stress certain syllables or words to create a particular feeling or mood in a poem. It is also used to reinforce meaning in a poem.
- The Oxford English Dictionary is a respected work. It is frequently used by students to look up the meaning of words, and is endorsed here at MCC as an acceptable dictionary and thereby found credible.
5. Evenski, Bill. "Lines and Rhymes: Rhythm." Poetry Basics. Angelfire.com. 17 June 2007 < http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/evenski/poetry/rhythm.html >.
The purpose of the website is to provide high school students and other interesed students and the public with information on poetry and its elements. Although, it is really a page created to provide the students with assignments as well as post up completed student assignments.
The website, however, provides, overall, an exceptional definiton of rhythm. Rhythm is actually defined in consideration to poetry. Excerpts from poems are used as examples to demonstrated rhythm, therefore, the websited would help in analyzing a selected poem. The page did help in understanding what rhythm is (in poetry), although, the website provided very little referenece to literary movements or significant aurthors during these movements, it provided a simple and comprehensive definition.
The credibility of the website relies on the facts provided, which are exceptional and not considered opions. The information provided also are from academic resources shared with college library databases, such as the Literature Resource Center. -D.R.
6. Lynch, Jack. “Rhythm.” Guide to Literary Terms. 25 June 2007 < http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/rhythm.html >.
This website provides a guide to literary terms. Rhythm is defined as “the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse or prose." Regular rhythm is called meter. Emily Dickinson creates a continuous rhythm in “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.” In each stanza, the first line has eight syllables; the second, six syllables; the third, eight syllables; and the fourth, six syllables. In each line, the first syllable is unstressed, the second is stressed, the third is unstressed, the fourth is stressed, and so on. Alliteration, rhyme, and repetition add to the rhythm of the poem.
This is an educational website sponsored Rutger’s University.
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