CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES ISSN – 2767-3758 102 https://masterjournals.com/index.php/crjps But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth
That I to manhood am arriv'd so near;
And inward ripeness doth much less appear,
That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th.
"Shew'th" (meaning: "shows") and "endu'th"
(meaning: "endures") are the forced rhymes in
this example. Notice, too, how the syntax in line 4
is slightly unusual: it would be more natural to
have written "But my late spring shows no bud
or blossom." The awkward phrasing of the line is
a further indication that the rhyme in it is forced.
This example from “How pleasant to know Mr.
Lear” by Edward Lear makes unusual use of
enjambment (a line break without punctuation)
to split the word "nightgown" in half so it rhymes
with "white"—an example of broken rhyme. The
rhyme scheme here is ABAB [7, 1].
When he walks in waterproof white,
The children run after him so!
Calling out, "He's gone out in his night-
Gown, that crazy old Englishman, oh!"
Rhythm is a flow, movement, procedure,
characterized by basically regular recurrence of
elements or features, as beat, or accent, in
alternation with opposite or different elements
or features.
The following are the most common rhythms
found in English poetry. We will show you how
each rhythm sounds using the symbol “x” to
indicate an unstressed syllable, and “/“ to
indicate a stressed syllable.
The iambic measure is the most common rhythm
pattern. It is made by alternating unstressed and
stressed syllables. Each foot in iambic meter is
called an iamb.
Natural conversation makes a sound similar to
the iambic rhythm, so using this rhythm helps a
poem sound more natural or conversational.
The most common type of iambic rhythm is
called the iambic pentameter. Penta is a Greek
word meaning “five,” and pentameter refers to
five iambs put together into one line. Since each
iamb is made up of one unstressed and one
stressed syllable, the iambic pentameter has ten
syllables in each line.
For example, try reading the lines from the poem
”Requirement” by John Greenleaf Whittier, with
the words in bold indicating the stressed
syllables and those not in bold being the
unstressed syllables [12, 6].
We live by Faith; but Faith is not the slave
Of text and Legend. Reason’s voice and God’s,
Nature’s and Duty’s, never are at odds.
In conclusion, the aim of this study was to
analyze phonetic stylistic devices and expressive
means in poems as well as to analyze which
functions they carry out in poems. What’s more,
the results yielded by the data analysis and the
benefits
of
literature
received
positive
perceptions. It is suggested that the analysis of
linguostylistic means should be made clear to
people who are studying stylistics at the very
early of the course.