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Music of The Poem/ Poem as A Song Lyric:
Beauty of a
poem lies in its music. In order to understand the musical quality of a poem
following devices and terms will be helpful.
1.
Rhyme Scheme
2.
Refrain
3.
Ballad
4.
Alliteration
5.
Assonance
6.
Rhyme
7.
Consonance
1. Rhyme scheme: In speaking of a
stanza, whether sung or read, it is customary to indicate buy a convenient
algebra its rhyme scheme, the order in which rhymed words recuse. For instance,
the rhyme scheme of this stanza by Herrick is a b a b; the first and third lines
rhyme and so do First and Fourth:
For
shame or pity now incline
To
play a loving part,
Either
to send me kindly thine
Or
give me back my heart
2. Refrains: Refrains or words,
phrases or lines repeated at intervals in a sing or song, like poem.
3. Ballad: Any narrative song, like Paul Simon’s ‘Richard
Cory’ maybe called a ballad. In English some of the most famous ballads are
folk ballads loosely defined as anonymous story- song transmitted orally before
they were ever written down.
Sir Walter Scott, a. Collector of Scottish folk
ballads, drew the ire of an old woman song behead transcribed.
‘they were made for singing and no for reading but
have broken the charm now and they will never be sung maar.
4. Alliteration: Analogies between
poetry and worldlier music, it is true, trend to break down when carried for,
since poetry - to mention a single difference, poem have patterns of sounds.
Among the such patterns long popular in English poetry is alliteration which
has been defined as
Succession of singular sounds:
Alliteration occurs in the repetition of the same consonant sound at the
beginning of successive world.
“round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal
run”
5. Assonance: As we have seen, to repeat the sound of
consonant is to produce alliteration, but to repeat the sound of a vowels is to
produce assonance.
6. Rhyme / Rime: Crime defined most
narrowly occurs when two or more words or phrases contain an identical or
similar vowel sound, usually accented, and the prairie schooner and piano turner.
From these examples, it will be seen that rhyme depends not on spelling but on sound.
7. Consonance: Kind of slant rhyme, occurs when the rhyme
words or phrases have the same beginning and ending constant sound but a different
vowel, as in” chitter and chattier own rhymes “spiled and spilled” in this way.
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