Rhythm is the beat and pace of a poem and is created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. It directly affects the temporal structure of the poem. Rhythm is important for the highly organized sense of poetry.

The word rhythm is derived from rhythmos (Greek) which means, “measured motion.” Rhythm is a literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in verse form.

Rhythm can be described as the beat and pace of a poem. Rhythm is created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line or verse. Rhythm can help to strengthen the meaning of words and ideas in a poem.

Examples of iambs: beGIN, aGAIN, aLIVE. Trochee—The opposite of an iamb, a trochee is one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable. Examples of trochees: ALtar, BRIDESmaid, MARRiage. Spondee—A spondee is a pattern of two subsequent stressed syllables.

Rhythm is a recurring movement of sound or speech. An example of rhythm is the rising and falling of someone’s voice. An example of rhythm is someone dancing in time with music. Movement or variation characterized by the regular recurrence or alternation of different quantities or conditions.

Rhythm. Rhythm is the repetition of a pattern of sounds in poetry. Rhythm is created by the alternation of long and short sounds and stressed and unstressed syllables. There are several different type of units of rhythm in poetry.

We can use five types of rhythm:

• Random Rhythm.
• Regular Rhythm.
• Alternating Rhythm.
• Flowing Rhythm.
• Progressive Rhythm.

A melody is a series of notes Most melodies have a lot more than that – for example, Happy Birthday is a super easy melody to learn and sing, and it’s 25 notes long! That being said a melody can have very few pitches of notes and still be classed as a melody. Depsite its name, the head of the song only has two pitches.

Repetition is a literary device that involves intentionally using a word or phrase for effect, two or more times in a speech or written work. Repeating the same words or phrases in a literary work of poetry or prose can bring clarity to an idea and/or make it memorable for the reader. …

Anaphora is the repetition of words or phrases in a group of sentences, clauses, or poetic lines.

A metaphor is often poetically saying something is something else. An analogy is saying something is like something else to make some sort of an explanatory point.

A Direct Metaphor means one thing is said to be another.