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Traditional
rhythm and rhyme Directions: Please do your best and have fun with the
following: Craft a couplet with an iambic tetrameter rhythm pattern that has a rhyme scheme of A, B. Next, turn your couplet into a quatrain by adding two more lines of iambic tetrameter that also have the rhyme scheme of A, B. When
creating the third and fourth lines (the second couplet), try to make the
meaning of these two new lines fit the meaning of the beginning couplet. Poetic Foot Identification Using your handout (pp. 16-17), identify the following poetic feet. Your choices are iamb, trochee, anapest, or dactyl. Interest ______________ Nightly_______________ Relief________________ Wedding______________ Buzzard______________ Cashier_______________ Taco John’s __________ Display_______________ Superman____________ Guitar________________ Finally, please
turn to p. 15 of our handout and determine the rhyme scheme of Loveliest of Trees. Please write the poem’s rhyme scheme in the blanks below: ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ What is the rhythm pattern of line 2 of the poem? In other words what poetic foot is used to create line 2 and how many of these feet are there? Type of poetic foot: _________________ Number of poetic feet:___________________ |
