What Is Poetry?

Abstract

RHYME Repetition of similar (same) vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. The opening stanza of Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," with end rhymes of the words, cloud-hills-crowd-daffodilstrees-breeze, is described as having a rhyme scheme of ababcc; pair rhyme: aabb cross rhyme: abab Schweifreim abba eye rhyme love / move Binnenreim innerhalb eines Verses OXYMORON A seeming contradiction in two words put together. cruel kindness; beautiful death; jumbo shrimp; real imitation leather TONE, MOOD Feelings or meanings expressed (conveyed) in the poem.