| A few months ago I wrote on Poetic Terminology and touched upon Alliteration, Enjambment and Imagery ‑ all important. This issue we will look at a few more, of varying importance. "Rhyming couplet," means two consecutive similar lines that have end rhyming.
A "stanza" is a group of lines separated from others by a space. A stanza can be anything from two lines up to anywhere, but I prefer four, six or eight lines ‑ as I have previously stated.
"Mid rhyme" or "internal rhyme" as the term implies, is simply a word in the middle rhyming with the word at lines end. A couple of examples from my poem The Gambling Man.
"A defacto wife named Vera stuck like glue to Dan the shearer". "Like a breath of winter chillness came the hush of eerie stillness".
Another form of internal rhyme is when two consecutive lines have words that rhyme in the middle and two different words rhyming on lines end.
Example from my poem, "Remember Chubby? "
"Last man in when playing cricket ‑ never made the foot ball team;
without score he lost his wicket, lost his cap and self‑esteem"
Another example from my poem Rescue For Rowdy.
"A drop of bourbon he enjoyed and ouzo to relax and brandy with the unemployed, who called for little snacks".
Onomatopoeia is the using of sound effects to draw attention to something. "Pow! " "Wheooo ‑‑" "Bang!" "Whizz‑‑", etc. Comic books rely heavily on onomatopoeia to get their point across.
There is a difference in "Blank Verse" and "Free verse" but I don’t think my readers are too concerned about either! "Prose" is any other form of writing other than poetry. Short stories, novels, etc. Next: The importance of the first stanza.
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