Writer’s Notebook
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
Get your reading pages totaled up
RHYME & RHYTHM
RHYME EXAMPLES:
RHYME:
RHYME SCHEME
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone
What doesn’t kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn’t mean I’m over ‘cause you’re gone
Kelly Clarkson “What Doesn’t Kill You”
RHYME SCHEME CONT.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger A
Stand a little taller A
Doesn’t mean I’m lonely when I’m alone B
What doesn’t kill you makes a fighter C
Footsteps even lighter C
Doesn’t mean I’m over ‘cause you’re gone D
Kelly Clarkson “What Doesn’t Kill You”
WHAT IS THE RHYME SCHEME?
There was a young man of Bengal
Who was asked to a fancy dress ball
He murmured: I'll risk it
I'll go as a biscuit
But the dog ate him up in the hall
Rhythm Definitions
RHYTHM EXAMPLES
Metered Rhythm:
To be, or not to be: that is the question. (Hamlet)
Now is the winter of our discontent. (Richard III)
Non-metered Rhythm:
After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks . . .
(Walt Whitman)
Which syllables are stressed?
O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead. (Walt Whitman)
O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead. (Walt Whitman)
Time to Practice!
As a class first: we will listen to the entire text of “The Jabberwocky” and then identify rhyme scheme and meter.
THE JABBERWOCK
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out
By: Shel Silverstein
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout ___
Would not take the garbage out! ___
She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans, ___
Candy the yams and spice the hams, ___
And though her daddy would scream and shout, ___
She simply would not take the garbage out. ___
And so it piled up to the ceilings: ___
Coffee grounds, potato peelings, ___
Brown bananas, rotten peas, ___
Chunks of sour cottage cheese. ___
It filled the can, it covered the floor, ___
It cracked the window and blocked the door ___
With bacon rinds and chicken bones, ___
Drippy ends of ice cream cones, ___
Prune pits, peach pits, orange peel, ___
Gloppy glumps of cold oatmeal, ___
Pizza crusts and withered greens, ___
Soggy beans and tangerines, ___
Crusts of black burned buttered toast, ___
Gristly bits of beefy roasts. . . ___
The garbage rolled on down the hall, ___
Now by yourself.
Identify rhyme scheme and underline stressed syllables on your worksheet.