1.

Poetry

2.

Rhythm

2.1.	Types of rhythm

2.2.

Feet

3.

Verse

3.1.	Measures of verse

4.	Sound patterning

4.1.	Alliteration

4.2.

Assonance

4.3.	Consonance

4.4.

Pararhyme

4.5.	Reverse rhyme

4.6.

Rhyme

4.7.	Rhyme schemes

"POETRY
differs from fiction mainly in the fact that the words of the former are arranged upon a definite principle of order. The fusion of sound and sense means that we as readers enjoy both sound and sense simultaneously. In English poetry the principle or arrangement has traditionally been the regular recurrence of accented and unaccented syllables. The stress of the voice in uttering the accented ones occurs as regularly as the beats of the pulse.


RHYTHM (in Greek: rhythmos = flow, flowing)
- the undulation of sound produced by this continuous flow of accents and non-accents
- it constituted the essential difference between poetry and fiction.
- In verse or prose, the movement or sense of movement communicated by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables and by the duration of the syllables. In verse the rhythm depends on the metrical pattern. In verse the rhythm is regular: in prose it may or may not be regular.
- perception of differences
Sound rhythm: differences like: long x short or loud x silent
Speech rhythm: stressed x unstressed
- regular repetition of a sound element or of complex of sounds elements with opposition tendencies, which break this regularity
- the rhythm of classical verse is based upon quantity which in Latin and Greek poetry is governed by much more rigid laws than the metrical rules of English verse.

Types of rhythm:
Duple rhythm - occurs in lines composed in two-syllable feet
Triple rhythm - in metrical schemes based on three-syllable feet
Rising rhythm - the stress pattern is thrown forward in a line of verse, so that it falls on the last syllable of each foot in a line. Iambic and anapaestic feet are basic to rising rhythm.
Falling rhythm - last syllable of the feet is unstressed. Trochee and dactyl.
Running rhythm - occurs in metres in which stressed and unstressed syllables alternate (duple, rising or falling rhythm)
Sprung rhythm - in verse wherein the line is measured by the number of speech-stressed syllables, the number of unstressed syllables being indeterminate"