March

How rhythm works in English

·         stress

·         syllable

·         rhythm, ,

·         ‘cadence,

·         intonation

 

April

What is a verse line?

·         parallelism

·         patterns of syllables and stresses

·         rhyme

·         half rhyme

 

May

                                                Compositional units above the line

·         Couplets

·         Stanzas

·         Sonnets

·         Ballads and Ballades

·         Villanelle

                                                                                                           

                                                            June

                                                Verse  and grammatical rhythms

§  end-stop and run-on

§  long and short sentences

§  ‘natural speech’ rhythm

 

      July

                                                     Free verse

·         variation on a metrical norm

·         breath

·         line-ends

·         spatial

 

August

                                                                   Why verse?