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Word Choice: Poets create music in their poems through the words they choose.
Listen my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.- "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
end rhyme- words rhyme at the end of lines
couplet- When two rhyming lines are consecutive
internal rhymes- words that rhyme within the same line
exact rhymes- cold and hold
near rhymes or( approximate )- sounds that are similar, but not exactly the same. fellow and follow
Rhythm provides the poem's beat
Meter- a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
The repeated beginnings and structures of lines that create a rhythm.
oh mother you plunged me sobbing and laughing
into our past
into the river crossing at five
into the spinach fields
into the plainview cotton rows
into tuberculosis wards- Teresa Palomo Acosta