Identify patterns of rhyme and rhythm. SPI 0601.8.9

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1. Analyzing Poetry Tips - The elements of analyzing poetry listed at this site will help you identify the meaning through its parts and give a sense of interpreting a poem.
2. Elements of Poetry - comprehensive explanation of many elements; including rhyme and rhythm
3. Form, Rhyme and Rhythm - a BBC English Literature page
4. Have You Mastered All 7 of These Basic Rhyme Schemes? - from the lyric writer's workroom
5. Music Activities and Arts Integration Lessons - index of activities listing language arts related activities
6. Poetic Techniques - rhyme schemes and patterns in poetry
7. Poetry: Rhyme, Repetition, and Rhythm - [12 page document] worksheets, quizzes and answers
8. Rhyme - A rhyme is a tool utilizing repeating patterns that brings rhythm or musicality in poems which differentiate them from prose which is plain.
9. Rhyme Scheme - the structure the end words of a verse or line that a poet needs to create
10. Rhyme Schemes - A Poetry Lesson Plan - This lesson plan uses several poems from Poetry4kids.com to show how to identify the rhyme scheme of a poem. Students will analyze the poems to determine the rhyme schemes of each.
11. Rhyme Schemes - a pattern that describes where the rhyming words fall within a given stanza or verse
12. Rhyming in Poetry - Rhyming, much like writing in general, is not difficult; creating poetry that rhymes well is the tricky part. [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
13. Rhythm - English poetry makes use of five important rhythms. These rhythms are of different patterns of stressed (/) and unstressed (x) syllables. Each unit of these types is called foot. Here are the five types of rhythm.
14. Rhythm and Meter in English Poetry - English poetry employs five basic rhythms of varying stressed (/) and unstressed (x) syllables.
15. Rhythm and Rhyme - definition and examples
16. Rhythm and Rhyme - definition and examples [different source]
17. Rhythm in Poetry - Lesson and quiz
18. Rhythm in Poetry – The Basics - Sometimes the rhythm is a simple one, and sometimes it’s more complex, but it’s not there by accident. Poets arrange their words in such a way as to create those rhythmical patterns.
19. Rhythm Trainer - Flash-based program for learning and practicing rhythm
20. Slant Rhyme in Poetry: Definition, Examples & Quiz - we'll explore slant rhymes, which are sometimes called half rhymes or near rhymes.
21. Sounds of Poetry - worksheet on the pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds in a line of poetry [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
22. Sound and Rhyme - A brief exploration of the various aspects of sound that can be utilized when making a poem. The crafting of the aural aspects of a poem is what we may call "ear training." Thus, the crafting of the visual aspects is what we'd call "eye training."
23. Sound and Rhyme - from Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
24. Sound Devices Used In Poetry - a list of definitions
25. Sound: Rhythm & Rhyme - Sound brings attention to both individual words that are drawn together through their sound as well as to the overall "feeling" or experience.
26. Types of Rhyme - The poet who wishes to write a rhyming poem has several different sorts of rhyme from which to choose.
27. What is a Rhyme Scheme? - definition & examples; lesson with video included [5:29]
28. What is the rhythmic pattern in poetry? - Explains the types of patterns

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