All about rhyme…
‘it’s always fun to write a rhyme,
whatever the weather,
it will make you shine. ☼
what is a rhyme?
Words that rhyme have the same sound.
'Alice' and 'palace' both have the same sound. You can write rhyming poems by using pairs or groups of words that use the same sounds.
what is a stanza?
In rhymes and poetry, a stanza is a block of text made up of lines that talk about the same thing.
It is like a paragraph in prose or a verse in a song. A stanza may be arranged with others and may have rhyming patterns and meters.
what is a Meter?
The meter in a rhyme is the syllabic count or beats of a line.
What is PROSE?
Prose is a free-flowing verse and can be any mix of words without a pattern or a rhyme.
Her feathers were neat and rounded,
down to her long, slender tail.
Whenever she saw Alice scooting,
she would swoop to grab her mail.
~Sofia Sparrowhawk
Olive Otter had many cubs,
who loved to swim and play all day.
Each morning they teased each other,
but they would never ever stray.
~Olive Otter
SYLLABLES & SYLLABIC BEATS OF A LINE
When we speak words out loud, we pronounce different parts separately. These parts are called syllables.
Palace has two beats, or two syllables: ‘Pal’-’ace’
Post has only one syllable: ‘Post’
Some syllables have long sounds and some have short sounds.
When we speak the word ‘palace’, the first part of the word sounds longer and the second part of the word sounds shorter (remember this is about how it sounds and not how long the syllable is).
The long and short sounding syllables add rhythm to rhyme, like the beats in music.
In Alice the Palace Postwoman books, each stanza has a set number of syllables in each line which gives it a pattern as you read the story.
