A course of modern english lexicology

Amphibrach I sprang to the stirrup and Joris and he, I galloped, Dick galloped, we galloped all three. (Browning) Dactyl Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care, Fashion’d so slenderly Young and so fair. (Hood) Iambus There went three kings into the east, Three kings both great and high, And they had sworn a solemn oath: John Barleycorn should die. (Burns) Anapest I am monarch of all I survey From the central all round to the sea. (Pope)

QUESTIONS TO LECTURE #5

1. What are poetic stylistic devices based on?
2. What is euphony?
3. What is alliteration and consonance? Give your examples.
4. What is assonance? Give your examples.
5. What is sound symbolism? Give your examples.
6. What is the rhythm?
7. What is rhyme?
8. What is metre?
9. What is a more general linguistic term for “metre”?
10. How do you call the analysis of the metrical structure of a poem?
11. How do you call the smallest recurring segment of the line?
12. How many types of feet are there in the English poetry? Name them.
13. What is the type of feet in the following line?
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
(Alfred Tennyson, "Ulysses")
11. Do the task in Supplement 6.
12. Choose two poems from Supplement 6 and learn them by heart.
Lecture #6

ENGLISH VERSIFICATION

1. RHYME
2. TYPES OF RHYME
3. PATTERNS OF PHYME
4. STRUCTURE OF VERSE. STANZA
A. The Ballad
B. The Spenserian Stanza
C. The Ottava Rima
D. The Sonnet

1. RHYME

Rhyme is the second feature distinguishing verse from prose. It is the repetition of identical or similar final sounds of words. In poetry rhyme serves to bind lines together into large units.
The word “rhyme” can be used in a specific and a general sense. In the specific sense, two words rhyme if their final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical; two lines of poetry rhyme if their final strong positions are filled with rhyming words. A rhyme in the strict sense is also called a perfect rhyme. Examples are sight – flight, deign – gain, madness – sadness.
With reference to the degree of similarity of sounds there are different rhymes: