Poetry
Rhyme, Rhythm, and Alliteration
What is a Rhyming Poem?
A rhyming poem is a poem that contains rhyming words at the end of certain lines.
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
You're wonderful stuff,
I love you, spaghetti,
I can't get enough.
You're covered with sauce
and you're sprinkled with cheese,
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Oh, give me some please.
-Jack Prelutsky
Dirty Socks
Pages 6-7
I Know You Won't Believe Me
Page 12-13
My Frog is a Frog
Page 82
What is Alliteration?
A poem with alliteration repeats the initial consonant sounds closely together.
Alliteration Poems tend to be tongue twisters.
Examples:
Down the slippery slide they slid
Sitting slightly sideways;
Slipping swiftly see the skid
On holidays and Fridays.
A fly and a flea flew up in a flue.
Said the fly to the flea, "What shall we do?"
"Let's fly," said the flea.
"Let's flee," said the fly.
So they fluttered and flew up a flaw in the flue.
What is Rhythm?
Any poem can have rhythm, if the reader of the poem gives the poem rhythm.
Rhythm has a lot to do with stressed and unstressed syllables.