The Language of Poetry
One characteristic that makes poetry different from ordinary language is its use of various kind of repetition.
1. One of them is called poetic meter. It is basically the repetition of a regular pattern of beats.
In poetry written in accentual-syllabic meters, both the number of beats and syllables reappear in a set-pattern. The most frequently used accentual-syllabic meter in English language poetry is iambic pentameter where unaccented and accented syllables alternate in lines of 10 syllables.
2. Other type of repetition in poetry is rhyme. It is the repetition of sound clusters; assonance i.e. the echoing of vowels; and consonance i.e. the echoing of consonants.
3. Most of the early poetry includes refrains. It means the repetition of phrases or lines.
4. The effects created by the poetic line may vary remarkably depending on its patters of repetition, its length, and whether the sentence stops at the end of the line - often called end-stopped or carries over the end of the line - that is enjambed.
5. Most earliest examples of Old English poetry characterizes an accentual line with 4 equally strong beats, with 3 of the 4 stressed words allied by the recurrence of sounds, often called alliteration, and a strong pause in the middle of the line that is called a caesura.
1. One of them is called poetic meter. It is basically the repetition of a regular pattern of beats.
In poetry written in accentual-syllabic meters, both the number of beats and syllables reappear in a set-pattern. The most frequently used accentual-syllabic meter in English language poetry is iambic pentameter where unaccented and accented syllables alternate in lines of 10 syllables.
2. Other type of repetition in poetry is rhyme. It is the repetition of sound clusters; assonance i.e. the echoing of vowels; and consonance i.e. the echoing of consonants.
3. Most of the early poetry includes refrains. It means the repetition of phrases or lines.
4. The effects created by the poetic line may vary remarkably depending on its patters of repetition, its length, and whether the sentence stops at the end of the line - often called end-stopped or carries over the end of the line - that is enjambed.
5. Most earliest examples of Old English poetry characterizes an accentual line with 4 equally strong beats, with 3 of the 4 stressed words allied by the recurrence of sounds, often called alliteration, and a strong pause in the middle of the line that is called a caesura.
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