Iambic Tetrameter Sexain in Couplets

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Let's look at the following terms, though not in the order presented:

Closed Couplet
End Rhyme
Feminine Rhyme
Iambic Tetrameter
Internal Rhyme
Masculine Rhyme
Middle Rhyme
Mono-rhyme
Open Couplet
Rhyme Scheme
Sexain
Simile
The Rhyme
The poem, "That Name" is written in rhyming couplets. A close examination shows that use is made of the closed couplet and the open couplet. How do we describe these couplets?

A closed couplet emerges when the sense and syntax is self-contained within the two lines.

An open couplet emerges when the thought is carried beyond the rhyming lines to end at any point in any line of a subsequent couplet.

A simile is a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds. Similes are usually formed with 'like' or 'as'. Can you identify any similes in the poem, "That Name?"

A rhyme scheme is the formal arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem. The poem, "That Name" has a rhyme scheme of aa bb cc. The rhyme is the correspondence of two or more words with similar sounding final syllables placed so as to echo one another. The rhyme is used to produce sounds appealing to the reader's senses as well as to unify and to establish a poem's stanzaic form.

The end rhyme is rhyme found at the end of a line of verse to echo the end of another line of verse and is the most common. The internal rhyme or middle rhyme is a rhyme between words in the same line of verse.

A verse consisting of four (4) metrical feet is known as a Tetrameter. When the verses are written in predominately in iambic with four (4) feet it is called an Iambic Tetrameter.

A Sexain has a stanza of six (6) verses.

A rhyme occurring in words of one syllable or in a stressed final syllable is known as a masculine rhyme. Can you identify any masculine rhymes in the poem, "That Name?"

In a poem where all the verses have the same end rhyme is called a mono-rhyme.

Feminine rhyme is when a rhyme occurs on an unstressed final syllable. Feminine rhymes are double or dissyllabic rhymes and are common in the heroic couplet. Are there any feminine rhymes in the poem, "That Name?"