English - Literature - Poetry - Introduction to poetry - rhythm and rhyme - Beat and Rhythm
5 steps: (1) Poetry has a BEAT, like music! Clap the rhythm: 'Twin-kle Twin-kle LIT-tle STAR' (da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM). (2) RHYTHM = the pattern of stressed (strong) and unstressed (weak) syllables. Strong syllables are like drum beats. (3) RHYME = words that end with the same sound. End rhyme