Basics of English poetry

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Topic started by Shakthiprabha. on Sun Jan 21 6:29:21 2007. [Full View]

LEt us try and learn some basic terms which may be used
while we attempt writing a poetry.

I invite fellow hubber and friend, QUERIDA to be an active participant here, to educate us to know better, develop finer tastes for poetries.

I invite all poets wellversed in ENGLISH POETRIES to enlighten us with their knowledge and share their peace of work here AND TO DISCUSS about it.

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From: Shakthiprabha. on Sat Jan 27 10:51:52 2007. [Full View]

iamb

A metrical foot of two syllables, one short (or unstressed) and one long (or stressed). There are four iambs in the line “Come live/ with me/ and be/ my love,” from a poem by Christopher Marlowe. (The stressed syllables are in bold.)

tia is right.

iambic pentameter

A type of meter in poetry, in which there are five iambs to a line. (The prefix penta- means “five,” as in pentagon, a geometrical figure with five sides. Meter refers to rhythmic units. In a line of iambic pentameter, there are five rhythmic units that are iambs.) Shakespeare's plays were written mostly in iambic pentameter, which is the most common type of meter in English poetry. An example of an iambic pentameter line from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is “But soft!/ What light/ through yon/der win/dow breaks?” Another, from Richard III, is “A horse!/ A horse!/ My king/dom for/ a horse!” (The stressed syllables are in bold.)

It all depends on HOW WE PRONOUNCE AND WHERE WE STRESS AINT NOT?

tia,

I did not get u regarding 'gg' finishing the whole poem [/tscii]
From: Tia on Sat Jan 27 11:59:30 2007. [Full View]

you know the rhyming couplet gg at the end as you posted...ababcdcdefefGG.....gg lines summarise the ending of the poemm....so its like an ending to the whole poem ......a solution or endinggg....i dunno how to explain it :S
From: Shakthiprabha. on Sat Jan 27 12:36:10 2007. [Full View]

ah ! I think I got u now
From: Tia on Sun Jan 28 18:50:35 2007. [Full View]

kewl!
From: sundararaj on Tue Jan 30 11:52:36 2007. [Full View]

Good goin indeed.
From: Wibha on Tue Mar 10 0:55:31 2009. [Full View]

Shakthiprabha wrote:

This is not a sonnet des (as far as IVe understood )

it should rhyme the foll way

a
b
a
b

c
d
c
d

e
f
e
f

g
g

Only Shakespearean or Italian sonnets have a particular rhyme scheme. A poem with 14 lines (usually a love poem) can be considered a sonnet.

the Italian sonnet has a different rhyme scheme
abba abba cdecde.
From: sarna_blr on Tue Mar 10 2:07:54 2009. [Full View]

great thread
From: Querida on Thu Mar 26 15:10:50 2009. [Full View]

I feel so embarrassed...you have mentioned my name and yet i am not here for you...please forgive me for this horrendously late appearence

Alliteration is an addictive instrument...and you find it popping up in your everyday speech and writing...to the point that when you sit down to write something more to heart...your alliterative troll jumps to attention and starts singing off his at the moment painfully unwanted suggestions:

such as when thinking of the
pain that you wish to express
you understand it pricks and panics
and sends pinching pecks of pulsating
paralysis and yet that is not what you
want to say.

I have to confess when it comes to metres and sonnets...i run for the wavering, untamed hills! I only know to read them and dissect them...all of which makes for interesting chat or over analytical drivel.

There is one humble question I want to ask...is this thread to help others write poetry or to understand how poetry has been written and what tools have and can be employed?

Either we can discuss the rules and traditions that have been used or we can introduce different tools or avenues as i like to think of them to enrich our own writing.
From: P_R on Sun Mar 29 1:12:42 2009. [Full View]

Querida wrote:

There is one humble question I want to ask...is this thread to help others write poetry or to understand how poetry has been written and what tools have and can be employed?

The second first and the first next
From: P_R on Sun Mar 29 1:16:36 2009. [Full View]

Shakthiprabha wrote:

This is not a sonnet des (as far as IVe understood )

it should rhyme the foll way

a
b
a
b

c
d
c
d

e
f
e
f

g
g

is that the only rule ?

Friday night I dream of two
Unfettered days that's called weekend
The week was sold for bread and brew
Now all the time is mine to spend

Seductive unread pile of books
(The read pile is a sandclenched fist)
Spring cleaning due the house it looks
Other errands from my mother's list

Unnanounced aunts just happen to drop in
Liberty with my plans they take
'Read later now come with us shopping
He can wait that William Blake'

Possessive pronouns for Time is a blunder
We exist together and not asunder

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