Week 3: Patterns of sound

Note: read the instructions for Monday, which contain an assignment to be done over the weekend.

Monday, August 31

  • Choose a poem from 100 Best Loved Poems, perform a brief metrical analysis of it (about 250 words), and post it in our Facebook Group before this class.
  • Bring your scanned printed poems to class (if you missed class on Wednesday, then don’t).
  • In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read “Scansion” “Trimeter” “Tetrameter” “Pentameter”

Wednesday, September 2

  • In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read “Rhyme” “Rhyme Scheme” and “Internal Rhyme”
  • Analyze the same poem you chose for the previous class and focusing on its use of rhyme. What does rhyme contribute to the poem?

Friday, September 4

  • In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read “Alliteration” “Consonance” and “Assonance”
  • Choose a poem from Please Excuse This Poem and identify uses of alliteration and consonance. Post your analysis in our Facebook Group before this class.

By Leonardo Flores

Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. He taught at the English Department at University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus from 1994 to 2019. He is President of the Electronic Literature Organization. He was the 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. His research areas are electronic literature and its preservation via criticism, documentation, and digital archives. He is the creator of a scholarly blogging project titled I ♥ E-Poetry, co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and has a Spanish language e-lit column in 80 Grados. He is currently co-editing the first Anthology of Latin American Electronic Literature. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.