ENGL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Caesura, Eye Rhyme, Internal Rhyme
19 Oct 2016
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(cid:862)the sou(cid:374)d (cid:373)ust see(cid:373) a(cid:374) echo to the se(cid:374)se(cid:863) alexander pope. She seemed a thing that could not feel. Poem commemorating the death of a young girl. Is elegiac elegy is song of mourning not long enough to be an elegy: attempts to find solace, consolation for survivors. Assonance matching of vowel sounds: long e is a dominate sound, has a greater lightness to it compared to the heavy os in the second stanza, rhyming words striving for some kind of resolution. Meter: recurrent patterns of access, ordered deployment of syllabic stresses, units of measurements feet, how to scan for meter. Trochaic tetrameter 4 meters 4 feet in a line. When accessing the meter need to look at the predominate meter- predominantly iambic. Iambic pentameter with a substitution of trochee: rhythms of natural speech apply when reading poetry, underlying pattern that you see, caesura strong pause in line |, end-stopped lines vs enjamed lines (run on lines enjambment)
