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A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.

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Rhyme Schemes And Patterns In Poetry, Poetic Techniques

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Rhyming poems are determined by the ending words of the lines. Not all poems follow a rhyme scheme, but for those that do, there are different patterns each stanza follows.

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A particular type of pattern formed by rhythm.

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Rhythm , in poetry, the patterned recurrence, within a certain range of regularity, of specific language features, usually features of sound. Although difficult to define, rhythm is readily discriminated by the ear and the mind, having as it does a physiological basis . It is universally agreed to involve qualities of movement, repetition, and pattern and to arise from the poem's nature as a temporal structure. Rhythm, by any definition, is essential to poetry ; prose may be said to exhibit rhythm but in a much less highly organized sense. The presence of rhythmic patterns heightens emotional response and often affords the reader a sense of balance.

Metre , although often equated with rhythm, is perhaps more accurately described as one method of organizing a poem's rhythm. Unlike rhythm, metre is not a requisite of poetry; it is, rather, an abstract organization of elements of stress, duration, or number of syllables per line into a specific formal pattern. The interaction of a given metrical pattern with any other aspect of sound in a poem produces a tension, or counterpoint, that creates the rhythm of metrically based poetry.

Compared with the wide variety of metrical schemes, the types of metrically related rhythms are few. Duple rhythm occurs in lines composed in two-syllable feet, as in Shakespeare's line

In metrical schemes based on three-syllable feet, the rhythm is triple:

Rising rhythm results when the stress falls on the last syllable of each foot in a line:

The reverse of this is falling rhythm:

Running, or common, rhythm occurs in metres in which stressed and unstressed syllables alternate (duple rhythm, rising or falling). Gerard Manley Hopkins , in reaction against traditional metres, coined the term sprung rhythm to apply to verse wherein the line is measured by the number of speech-stressed syllables, the number of unstressed syllables being indeterminate.

The rhythms of free verse derive from the systematic repetition of language elements other than metrical stress patterns. Differentiation between the rhythmical basis of free verse and that of metrical verse involves a relative, rather than an absolute, distinction regarding the range of language features considered and the extent to which they are patterned. Since metrical verse is principally concerned with the distribution of relative stress values, it does not account for the significance of other linguistic features that may contribute to rhythmic effect. In free verse, rhythm most commonly arises from the arrangement of linguistic elements into patterns that more nearly approximate the natural cadence of speech and that give symmetry to the verse. The rhythmical resources available to free verse include syntactical patterning; systematic repetition of sound, words, phrases, and lines; and the relative value of temporal junctures occasioned by caesura (a marked pause in the middle of a line), line length, and other determinants of pace. Some authorities recognize in the highly organized patterning of imagery a further source of poetic rhythm. The following lines from Walt Whitman 's "Song of Myself " illustrate many of these rhythmical devices:

Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore,
Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly;
Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all so lonesome.

She owns the fine house by the rise of the bank,
She hides, handsome and richly drest aft the blinds of the window.

The rhythms that are characteristic of particular poets are sometimes ascribed to units of breath, as in the essay " Projective Verse" (1950) by the poet and critic Charles Olson : "And the line comes (I swear it) from the breath, from the breathing of the man who writes, at the moment that he writes."

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Rhythm , in poetry, the patterned recurrence, within a certain range of regularity, of specific language features, usually features of sound. Although difficult to define, rhythm is readily discriminated by the ear and the mind, having as it does a physiological basis .

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Repetition is the action of something that has already been said or written.

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I wrote the following poem a couple of weeks ago-inspired by a long period of rainy days. It just kept raining and raining and raining...and sometimes pouring. It seemed as if the rain would never stop. In my poem, I tried to capture the thoughts of a child who feels his/her world has been inundated with rain.

It's raining...
Raining all around.
It's raining puddles
On the ground.
It's raining
On my booted feet.
It's raining
Rivers in the street.
It's raining cats.
It's raining dogs.
It's raining ponds
For polliwogs.
It's raining
Drop by drop by drop...
A billion trillion-
It won't stop!
It's raining buckets
From the sky.
Don't think the earth
Will EVER dry.

You can see that I repeated the words "It's raining" many times in my poem. I'm sure you can figure out why-to emphasize the point that it's raining...a lot!

You will see that Mary Ann Hoberman repeated the word "snow" many times in the following poem:
SNOW
Snow
Snow
Lots of snow
Everywhere we look and everywhere we go
Snow on the sandbox
Snow on the slide
Snow on the bicycle
Left outside
Snow on the steps
And snow on my feet
Snow on the sidewalk
Snow on the sidewalk
Snow on the sidewalk
Down the street.

Here's a poem I posted previously at Wild Rose Reader . I use the same sentence as the first line of every stanza of my poem . Repetition doesn't serve the same purpose in this poem as it did in the previous two poems.

Do you think I Am Lion would have been a better poem if I hadn't used repetition? Let's see.

Let's eliminate the first line in four of the stanzas and see how the poem reads.

I am lion.
See my mane? one delicious feast!

I am king
And here I reign
On the Serengeti Plain.

See my paws
With their sharp
And pointy claws?
See my teeth and mighty jaws?

Hear my roar?
I'm a cat
Of legend...lore.
I'm a fearsome predator!

Who are you?
How do you do?
You look plump...and juicy, too.

I am lion,
Royal beast.
Sorry that you're
Now deceased.
You were
As you can see-the rhythm was definitely affected. Of course, I could have written a different four-syllable line to begin each stanza. But I didn't. I chose repetition. I thought it worked well in . What do you think?

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Here are some quotes from postings about repetition in poetry that I found on the Internet:

"Repetition of a sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza, or metrical pattern is a basic unifying device in all poetry. It may reinforce, supplement, or even substitute for meter, the other chief controlling factor in the arrangement of words into poetry."
Read more here- http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/repetition.html

"Repetition, however, is perhaps the most basic idea in poetics. There are all sorts of repetition: the repetition of rhythmic elements (meter); the repetition of sounds (rhyme, etc.); the repetition of syntactic elements (often a lineation device in open form); the repetition of stanzas (terza rima, for example), and so on."

Read more here- http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/repetition.html

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IT'S RAINING: An Original Poem & Repetition in Poetry

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I wrote the following poem a couple of weeks ago-inspired by a long period of rainy days. It just kept raining and raining and raining...and sometimes pouring. It seemed as if the rain would never stop. In my poem, I tried to capture the thoughts of a child who feels his/her world has been inundated with rain.

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Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter in the beginning of a word and goes on through the whole sentence.

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An onomatopoeia is a word that describes a sound someone did or heard.

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We all remember those darling little Onomatopoeia Poems from grade school. They're the ones that use words that imitate or sound just like the source of the sound they describe. Examples of these words are tick tock, roar, boom and slurp.

The writers at My Word Wizard have decided to revisit this lovable art form and try their hand at the genre. So clap and beep or clang and jingle to express your delight at what they have put together!

We think you will really enjoy this very sweet genre.

Brothers

My boys are my brothers
Without the aid of my father and my mother.
They don't bounce when the bullets fly.
They stand up straight when my enemies drive by.
Many are called friends;
Fewer are called brothers -
A homey who gives his life for another.

Mom & Dad Are Home

Slam! Slam!
Go the car doors.
Jangle! Jangle!
Go the house keys.
Jiggle! Jiggle!
Go the keys in the door.
Squeak!
Goes the front door!
Thump! Thump!
That is me running down the stairs.
Guess what?
Mom and Dad are home!!

The Game

Clap! Clap!
Stomp! Stomp!
Swish! Swish!
This is the way we get through
Our games.
The crowd shouts,
"Yahoo!"
The ball soars through the air.
Then, bounce, bounce, bounce.
The audience holds its breath.
SWISH!
The ball goes in;
We win!

Camping

Crack! Crack!
The fire crackles under the stars.
Sizzle! Sizzle!
The water sizzles above the fire.
Crunch! Crunch!
The campers crunching on potato chips.
Click! Clack! Click! Clack!
The tent poles clicking and clacking together.
Rustle! Rustle!
As we prepare our sleeping bags to go to sleep.
Chirp! Chirp!
The crickets say, "good-night".

To Grandma's We Go

Rumble! Rumble!
The thunder roars.
Drip! Drip!
The rain comes down.
Boom! Boom!
The thunder shakes the window panes.
Run to the car! Run to the car!
Splash! Splash!
To Grandma's we go
For hot cocoa.
Zoom! Zoom!

Pool Party

Squeal!
Kids are running everywhere.
Running and Splash -
Falling in the pool.
The music plays -
Stomp! Stomp!
The children dance.
Finally, the food is off the grill-
Munch, munch, munch!

Poetry by Natasha Niemi

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Onomatopoeia Poems. Boom, bang, slash, swish, gargle, meow,and ruff are just some examples of the types of words that sound just like the actual sound they represent. We challenged the writers at My Word Wizard to create a collection of poems that use these types of words. It wasn't easy!

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An allusion is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.

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Short Allusion Poems. These are the most popular short Allusion poems by PoetrySoup poets. Search short Allusion poems by length and keyword.

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A hyperbole is an exaggerated statement.  Or claims not to be taken literally.

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What
is the format of a free verse poem? 

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What
is the format of a free verse poem? 

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A free verse poem is a poem that requires no rhyme, or any other traditional poetic techniques.

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A narrative poem is a poem is a poem that tells a story. It is usually written in  metred verse.

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A concrete poem is also known as a shape poem. It is a poem that is arranged in the shape of the intended

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A diamante poem is a style of poetry that is made up of seven lines. It forms the shape of a diamond.

love
joyous, painful
meeting, exploring, forgetting
taking your breath away, burying your soul deep
remembering, crying, feeling
gone, alone
sorrow

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A cinquain is usually a 5 line poem.

Castle

Strong, beautiful

Imposing, protecting, watching

Symbolizes wealth and power

Fortress

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What
is the format of a haiku? What are haikus generally about? .

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What
is the format of a haiku? What are haikus generally about? .

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A haiku is a Japanese poem that consists of 17 morae, in three phases of 5, 7 and 5. Haikus are generally about nature are natural things.

An old silent pond...

A frog jumps into the pond,

splash! Silence again.