Metrical+Patterns

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· a line of a verse consisting of five continuing iambs. An iamb is basically an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. · Walt Whitman is well known for using this Shakespearean style of writing  __Examples__ · Shall I / compare / thee to / a sum / mer's day? (Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII) Website : http://www.odlt.org/
 * __IAMBIC: __**

· a metric foot used in formal poetry. It consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.  · **Why ** so **pale** and **wan**, fond **Lov**er? Website: http://www.english.emory.edu/classes/Handbook/trochee.html · **Tell ** me **not** in **mourn**ful **num**bers <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Website__:__ http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/meter.html <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">
 * __ TROCHEE: __**<span style="COLOR: rgb(99,36,35)">
 * Examples**:
 * Prith**ee **why** so **pale**?
 * Will**, when **look**ing **well** can't **move** her,
 * Look**ing **ill** pre**vail**?
 * Prith**ee **why** so **pale**?

· <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> · //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">I am **out** of hu**ma**nity's **reach** I must finish my journey alone //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">For a more in depth analysis; Website: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/22718/anapest <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(202,214,102); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Consists of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed. Example **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">: · //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Pic**ture your** self **in a** boat **on a** riv**er with**tan**gerine** tree**-ees and** mar**malade** skii**-ii-es.** //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">
 * __<span style="COLOR: rgb(235,10,10)">ANAPEST __**__<span style="COLOR: rgb(235,10,10)">: __<span style="COLOR: rgb(99,36,35)"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(99,36,35)">
 * Examples**:
 * __DACTYL:__ ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(164,57,234); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">
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 * __  MONOMETE R  __**

a line of verse of one measure or foot http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=monometer&search= Dimeter a verse or line of two measures or feet

Trimeter (three feet)

Tetrameter (four feet)

Pentameter (five feet)

Hexameter (six feet)


 * __  SPONDE E  __**

· <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Consists of 2 stressed syllables following each other. Example **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">: · **//<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">White founts fall //**//<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">ing in the **courts** of the **sun**And the **Sol**dan of By**zan**tium is **smi**ling as they **run**; //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">
 * __  PYRRHI C  __**

· <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Consists of 2 unstressed syllables following each other. Example One **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">: · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Be **near** me **when** my **light** is **low**, When the **blood creeps** and the **nerves prick** And **ting'**//le'//; and the **heart** is **sick**, And **all** the **wheels** of **Be**ing **slow**. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">-from “In Memoriam.”
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· <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Be **near** me **when** my **light** is **low**, When the **blood creeps** and the **nerves prick** And **ting'**//le'//; and the **heart** is **sick**, And **all** the **wheels** of **Be**ing **slow**. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Website: http://www.essortment.com/all/metricalfoot_rxjm.htm
 * Example Two**:

· <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">one foot per line · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Dimeter: two feet per line Trimeter: three feet per line Tetrameter: four feet per line Pentameter: five feet per line Hexameter: six feet per line Heptameter: seven feet per line Octameter: eight feet per line
 * __ <span style="COLOR: #fb0909; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">MONOMETER __**
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Example **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">:

The tendency of a line to exceed the octameter 8 feet per line, usually then breaks off into two shorter lines which are used to help the reader speak more clearly and have a second break. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 60%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif">[|Extended Metrical Pattern Info] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(53,24,201); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Free verse is poetry that uses irregular patterns of meter and rhyme in which it flows in a more natural way to be like normal, common speech. · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">(**//vers libre//**, **//open form poetry//**); poetry with no identifiable metrical pattern or rhyme scheme. (To read an article about free verse, use the [|//**link**//].) Example **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">: · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">THE LAST night that she lived, It was a common night, Except the dying; this to us Made nature different.
 * __ FREE VERSE __**
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">

We noticed smallest things,— Things overlooked before, By this great light upon our minds Italicized, as ’t were.

That others could exist While she must finish quite, A jealousy for her arose So nearly infinite.

We waited while she passed; It was a narrow time, Too jostled were our souls to speak, At length the notice came.

She mentioned, and forgot; Then lightly as a reed Bent to the water, shivered scarce, Consented, and was dead.

And we, we placed the hair, And drew the head erect; And then an awful leisure was, Our faith to regulate. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">“The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams so much depends upon

a red wheel barrow

glazed with rain water

beside the white chickens <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Website: http://www.bloomington.in.us/~dory/creative/class5.html <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(19,216,187); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">An essential of all poetry; the regular or progressive pattern of recurrent accents in the flow of a poem; the rise and fall of stresses on words in the metrical feet.
 * __ RHYME __**

· <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Dr. Seuss- "The Lorax": Mister! he said with a sawdusty sneeze, I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. And I´m asking you, sir, at the top of my lungs-- he was very upset as he shouted and puffed-- What´s that THING you´ve made out of my Truffula tuft?
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Example **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">:

**__ SLANT RHYME __** · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Rhymes that are not exact but only approximate.

· <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">"Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the __soul-__ And sings the tune without the words- And never stops-at __all-__ EMILY DICKINSON-"Hope is the thing with feathers." **__ ANAPHORA __** -the same words or phrase is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines. (from lit book) “From Song of Myself" "__Or I guess__ the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation. __Or I guess__ it is a uniform hieroglyphic" -Walt Whitman
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Example **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">:
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(51,102,255)">Example: **

- ending a series of lines, sentences, or clauses with the same words What lies behind __**us**__ and what lies before __**us**__ are tiny compared to what lies within __**us**__." —Emerson <span style="DISPLAY: block; COLOR: rgb(45,1,1); FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(253,247,247); TEXT-ALIGN: left"><span style="COLOR: rgb(36,30,30)"> ** <span style="COLOR: rgb(36,30,30)"><span style="BACKGROUND: yellow; COLOR: lime; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial">Examples of Fixed Form Poem   **
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,255,18)">Epistrophe: **
 * <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,255,18)">Example: **

- tells a story close to folk tale or legend, and the refrain repeats. It is usually about love and sometimes sung. ** The Mermaid by Unknown Author **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(153,0,204); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Oh the ocean waves may roll, And the stormy winds may blow, While we poor sailors go skipping aloft And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below And the land lubbers lay down below ( http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/05-ballad-poems.htm)
 * __ BALLA D __**

There is also Organic Poerty which has no fixed structure.

Example: Death sets a thing significant The eye had hurried by, Except a perished creature Entreat us tenderly

To ponder little workmanships In crayon or in wool, With "This was last her fingers did," Industrious until

The thimble weighed too heavy, The stitches stopped themselves, And then 't was put among the dust Upon the closet shelves.

A book I have, a friend gave, Whose pencil, here and there, Had notched the place that pleased him,-- At rest his fingers are.

Now, when I read, I read not, For interrupting tears Obliterate the etchings Too costly for repairs.

Emily Dickinson source: http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/Death_Sets_A_Th.htm

· <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/haiku · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">The beaches waves hit Sounding of flooding water Soothes aches all over
 * __ HAIKU __**
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Examples **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">:

Famous Haiku Writer: Basho Matsuo

An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again.

by Basho (1644-1694) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> [|Definitions of Poetic Devices]

**__<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #ec040b; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">METER __**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(37,17,54); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">A rhythmic pattern in poetry in which stresses (accented syllables) recur at regular intervals. The word "meter" comes from the Greek word for "measure." In other words the beat that the words are supposed to be read to, much like in a drum line or a song.<span style="COLOR: rgb(37,17,54)"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Website: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/meter.html<span style="COLOR: rgb(37,17,54)"> Example: I hear the sound I love, the soung of the hyman voice, I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused, or following, Sounds of the city and sounds out of the city, sounds of the day and night, Talkative young ones to those that like them, the loud laugh of work-people at their meals... http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/evenski/poetry/rhythm.html **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(37,17,54); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(37,17,54); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> FOOT __**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(101,184,180); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">: · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">The basic unit of meter; a group of syllables forming a metrical unit; a unit of (usually) two or three syllables that contains one strong stress. Basically a group of syllables with one stress and the rest unstressed.<span style="COLOR: rgb(37,17,54)"> Example **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">: · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">un/a/VOID/a/ble = unavoidable<span style="COLOR: rgb(37,17,54)"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(52,142,31); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> __<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #f61313; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">**IAMB (IAMBIC FOOT)** __  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> **:** <span style="COLOR: rgb(37,17,54)"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (**x /**).<span style="COLOR: rgb(37,17,54)">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(37,17,54); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">
 * __<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(101,184,180); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">
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 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(37,17,54); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Example **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(37,17,54); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">:
 * **iamb** || (^/) ||

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(54,83,80); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">
 * The || falling || out || of || faithful || friends, || renewing || is || of || love ||
 * The || falling || out || of || faithful || friends, || renewing || is || of || love ||

PENTAMETER <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Definition: · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">A metrical pattern in which the poetic line consists of five iambic feet; thus, a ten-syllable line with the following pattern: **x / x / x / x / x /**. Just read any of Shakespeare's sonnets for an example of the last two and what happens when you combine them<span style="COLOR: rgb(113,82,209)"> Example **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">: · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">shall **I** comPARE thee TO a SUMmer's DAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10<span style="COLOR: rgb(113,82,209)">
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">
 * __<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #fe0107; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">

DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE: __**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">A poem in which a single (fictional) speaker addresses an implied audience at a critical moment in an ongoing series of events. Like when that deep movie voice cuts in to say something like "But little did he know that..."

code Why am I standing here, alone, When outside you are knocking, knocking? I cannot come to you- My feet are glued to the floor. Forgive me, but I feared you! Would that you could open the door, But I have locked it! Ah! What sorrow I have brought upon myself! How you shout, how you plead for entrance And how I want you to enter, But you have not the strenth to break the door. Well, come on then! Find another way in! code WEBSITE: [|Dramatic Monolgue] __**STANZA**__:<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">A group of lines of verse, usually marked by a rhyme scheme (a regular pattern of end rhymes) and a predominant metrical pattern. Just like a paragraph in writing, only there's no real set number for lines in a stanza.<span style="COLOR: rgb(199,108,26)"> Example: **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(199,108,26); FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">"There was movement at the Station, for the word had passed around. That the colt from Old Regret had got away and had joined the wild Bush Horses, he was worth a Thousand Pound. So all the cracks had gathered to the frey, the tried and noted riders, from Stations near and far. Had gathered at the homestead overnight, For the Bushmen love hard Riding. Where the wild bush horses are, and the stock horse snuffs the battle with delight."
 * Example:**
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'The Man from Snowy River', Author;Banjo PATTERSON. Circa 1890, Australia <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">

§ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">A group of lines of verse (often in blank verse) which forms a unit within a poem; especially common in long narrative poems. Again, just a basic paragraph put into poetry <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Website __ http://tinablue.homestead.com/Prosody3BlankVerse.html __ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> - a song like poem having fourteen lines, follwing one or another of several set rhyme schemes. § <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">A fixed form consisting of fourteen lines of 5-foot iambic verse at times following a strict rhyme scheme. The conventions associated with the sonnet have changed during its history.
 * __ VERSE PARAGRAPH: __**
 * __Sonnet:__**

a b a b c d c d e f e f g g Example of a sonnet: Shakespeares Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely or more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all to short a date:
 * Most sonnets follow the form of

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Websites: http://www.essortment.com/all/metricalfoot_rxjm.htm http://www.answers.com/topic/meter-poetry __http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/apr/28/poemoftheweek36__________ <--- Talks about metrical patterns identified in a book.



EYE RHYME S  ** Eye-rhymes, as the name suggests, appeal to the eye, rather than to the ear. Therefore, they started to play a role in English poetry only from the [|Renaissance] period on, when the experience of poetry acquired a visual aspect.

· <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">A Rhyme that appears correct from the spelling but id not so from the pronunciation, such as…. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> Example **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag today Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory! -Both “today” and “victory” end with the letter “y” but their pronunciations are different. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> Here is a website that gives another definition and more examples: http://www.answers.com/topic/eye-rhyme <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(59,0,255); LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"> **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: rgb(59,0,255); LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"> 6-8 words poetry: ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Including 2 lines. One line has 6 words and one line has 8 words The final word of the first line rhyme with the 6th word of the second line This is a traditional style of poetry in Vietnam Example: ** · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Đầu lòng hai ả tố **nga** Thúy Kiều là chị, em **là** Thúy Vân ( The Tale of Kieu by Nguyen Du)
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They can be translated like this:

There are two beautiful sisters Thuy Kieu is the name of the elder, the younger sister is Thuy Van <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'">Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Du

A rhyme scheme is a regular pattern of rhyme, one that is consistent throughout the extent of the poem. Poems that rhyme without any regular pattern can be called rhyming poems, but only those poems with an unvarying pattern to their rhymes can be said to have a rhyme scheme.
 * RYHME SCHEME**:

Example: There once was a big brown cat a That liked to eat a lot of mice. b He got all round and fat a Because they tasted so nice. b

Roses are red Violents are blue Sugar is sweet And so are you.
 * Rhyme Scheme** is rhymed words at the ends of lines.
 * Example:**

Tetrameter- four measures And DID those FEET in ANcient TIME WALK upon ENgland's MOUNtains GREEN? And WAS the HOly LAMB of GOD On ENgland's PLEASant PAStures SEEN? http://www.tetrameter.com/