The form of poetryA. Sound Values1. RhymeLines of verse are said to rhyme or to have rhyme or to have rhyme scheme. when the ends of their final words have identical sound. A number of effects are possible by the use of rhyme.- masculine : when the accented vowel is in the final syllable of the line. The effect is sometimes thought to be stronger, the utterance more positive, than in the other situation.- feminine : when one or two unaccepted syllables follow the accented syllable in the rhyming word,- inexact or slant rhyme : a special variety of rhyme. Slant rhyme is useful to link very brief lines.Inexact rhymes have something of the effect of slight dissonances in music.- Internal rhyme : enhances the binding effect of rhymes2. Alliteration and Assonance• alliteration : a sound effect closely related to rhyme, the repetition of a sound in the initial position of various words, or of a consonant sound within the words.• assonance : when the writer varies the surrounding consonant sound, but repeats vowel sound, Assonance is used as frequently as alliteration, its effects are more subtle.3. OnomatopoeiaThe imitation of natural sounds in the sounds of words.B. Versification1. Rhythm and Meter• An important element in all language is rhythm. It as the regular recurrence of accent of stress.• The ideal pattern is called meter of the verse, and we call it ideal, for actual distribution of stresses rarely conforms to the pattern very long without a momentary deviation. It is customary to divide the metric line into units called feet.- iamb, or iambic foot( ), trochee or trochaic foot( ), anapest( ), dactyl( )spondee, or spondaic foot( ), pyrrhus or pyrrhic foot( )2. Lines of Verse• caesura : the natural pause within a line• end stopped : coincides with a logical unit of thought so that the line is usually ended by a mark of punctuation• run-on( or enjambed) : contains a part of a unit of thought, or parts of two units of thought3. Stanza Forms• Blank verse : unrhymed iambic pentameter and in free verse• Couplets : pairs of two successive lines• Heroic couplet : couplets are in iambic pentameter and are often called decasyllabic couplets• Triplet : three successive rhyming lines as a variation in a sequence of heroic couplets.• Tercet : three rhyming lines of whatever length, handled as an independent stanza. aaabbbccc• Terza rima : an old development of the tercet, borrowed fron Dante. aba bcb• Quatrain : an four-line staza. abab• Ballad stanza : some quatrain rhyme two lines. xaxa• Envelop quatrain : another variation enclose the second rhyme within the first one. abba• Ottavarima : consists of eight iambic pentameter lines rhyming. abababcc• Spenserian stanza : one notable nine-line form. The first eight lines are iambic pentameter; the ninth is iambic hexameter, or an Alexandrine.4. The Sonnet• The most esteemed stanza form.• nomally designates a lyric of fourteen iambic pentameter lines rhyming in one of several ways.- The Petrarchan or Italian sonnet rhymes : abba, abba, cde, cde- English sonnet - Spenser’s form : abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee- Shakespearean form : abab, cdcd, efef, gg5. Free VerseIts verse paragraphs are of widely varying lengths.Unrhymed and does not conform to any ideal meter.