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Poetry Line Endings
This year has just flown by. Not long ago I was welcoming 2015 and the year’s end is now almost upon us, and 2016 is right around the corner.
This month I want to talk about some different ways a poet can end the lines in their poetry. One way involves the music in your poem (rhyme) and the other involves a poem’s word flow (end stops and enjambment).
To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme
This is all about the sound or musical choice you make for your poem. There are several ways to rhyme in poetry, and I won’t go over them all here. See below for further information on the topic. For now I just want to cover the choice of rhyming at the end of each line (or the choice of not utilizing an end rhyme.
For more information on rhyme please check out:
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http://www.writing.com/main/newsletters/action/archives/id/5255-To-Rhyme-or-Not-...
http://www.writing.com/main/newsletters/action/archives/id/4220-Climbing-Rhyme-T...
MUST HAVES
--Choose to rhyme each line ending or...
--Choose not to end rhyme (which doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t plan on using rhyme—see above).
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
Once you’ve made a choice to end rhyme, there are a couple other choices to make:
--Masculine (only the final syllable rhymes) or feminine rhyme (the last two or more syllables rhyme).
--Slant (using similar sounds—ears/ours) or exact rhyme (utilizing the same sounds—trouble/bubble and no/go).
Enjambment or End Stopped Lines
This choice is whether or not you want a thought (for lack of a better word—because you could argue this and probably each and every word to express this) to carry over from line to line or end with each line and begin a new one with each new line. The “thought” can be a full sentence or a clause.
Consider which choice would be best for your poem’s pace, theme, topic and more. This choice is another tool to create the best expression for what you’re sharing with your reader.
SOURCE NOTES:
Drury, John. the po.e.try dic.tion.ar.y. 2nd edition. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2006. Print.
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.
Williams, Miller (1986). Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press.
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