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Poetic devices are a form of literary device used in poetry. Poems are created out of poetic devices via a composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements. [1] They are essential tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling. [2]
Epigraph: a quotation from another literary work that is placed under the title at the beginning of a poem or section of a poem. Hemistich : a half of a line of verse. Internal rhyme : a rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines.
Rhythm and meter are different, although closely related. [43] Meter is the definitive pattern established for a verse (such as iambic pentameter ), while rhythm is the actual sound that results from a line of poetry.
Iambic pentameter (/ aɪ ˌ æ m b ɪ k p ɛ n ˈ t æ m ɪ t ər / eye-AM-bik pen-TAM-it-ər) is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama.The term describes the rhythm, or meter, established by the words in each line.
Hopkins' major innovation was what he called sprung rhythm. He claimed most poetry was written in this older rhythmic structure inherited from the Norman side of the English literary heritage, [citation needed] based on repeating groups of two or three syllables, with the stressed syllable falling in the same place on each repetition.
From 1927 and forward the recognized definition of "Counter Rhythm [53]" is "A subordinate rhythm acting as a counterbalance to the main rhythm" (OED [53]). Counter Rhythm is not a common word or phrase in the English Language, appearing approximately 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
In poetry cadence describes the rhythmic pacing of language to a resolution [2] and was a new idea in 1915 [3] used to describe the subtle rise and fall in the natural flow and pause of ordinary speech [4] where the strong and weak beats of speech fall into a natural order [5] restoring the audible quality to poetry as a spoken art. [6]