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Task 1: Reflecting on a Poem's Form

Earlier in this unit, you learned how to analyze a poem's rhythm or meter, which is defined by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line. Scansion is the technical term for scanning a poem line by line and word by word, marking which syllables are stressed and which ones are unstressed.

Look at the metrical pattern of the first two lines of Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." The character x marks an unstressed syllable, while the character / marks a stressed syllable (in bold font in the text).

x / x / x / x /

Whose woods | these are | I think | I know.

x / x / x / x /

His house | is in | the vill | age though;

The scansion marks show that each line in the stanza has the same pattern: four pairs per line, with the unstressed syllable before the stressed syllable in each pair (x / x / x / x /). This pattern is called iambic tetrameter.

Select a song that you like and scan the lyrics, noting the rhyme scheme and meter. Then, reflect on and respond to the following questions:

What rhyme scheme and meter do the lyrics have? Is it a set meter, or does it vary?

How do you think the song type (rap, hip-hop, pop, country, etc.) influences the kind of meter it has?

Would you expect to find a similar rhyme scheme and meter in other songs in this genre?

If you recited the song lyrics as you would a poem, would it have the same rhythm and meter as it does as a song?

Does putting the lyrics to the musical arrangement alter the spoken rhythm of the

words?

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Now write a four-line stanza of your own that you think would go well to music. After you write the stanza, reflect on the following questions:

What rhyme scheme and meter does your poem have?

How do those qualities help express the meaning of the poem?

What genre of music do you see your poem fitting into?

In what ways is the musical genre you envision connected to the rhyme scheme and meter that you chose?

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Task 2: Comparing Text and Song Versions of a Poem

In this task, you will write a short essay that contrasts how a poem sounds when read in its original form to how that poem sounds when heard as a song.

Choose one of the following pairs of poems and songs:

“” by Alfred Tennyson; song “The Lady of Shalott” by Loreena McKennitt

“” by Emily Dickinson; song “Because I Could not Stop” by Natalie Merchant

“” by Christina Rossetti; song “Promises Like Pie-Crust” by Carla Bruni

“” by William Butler Yeats; song “The Two Trees” by Loreena McKennitt

Plan to read the text version of the poem and listen to the song version a few times to get a good feel for the rhythm of each of the two versions and how it contributes to the feel and meaning of the poem in both situations.

Write a short essay (200–400 words) comparing the two versions of the poem, considering the following questions:

How does the meter of the poem change, if at all, when it is presented in song form?

Does the original poem have a meter that lends itself well to song lyrics?

How, if at all, is the poem changed or presented differently as a song?

Why might the artist have made changes to the poem?

Does the poem take on a different meaning in song form than in poetic form?

Structure your essay into an introduction, body, and conclusion, and make sure that it focuses on a main idea. Use textual evidence, including scansion, to support your ideas.

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Revise the draft of your essay before you submit it to your teacher. Use the following

checklist to revise your essay:

Does the essay have a clear and concise main idea?

Is this idea made clear to the reader in a thesis statement early in the essay (usually in the first paragraph)?

Is there a clear plan and sense of organization to the essay?

Have you included concrete examples from the poem to support the claims in the essay?

Is each paragraph clearly related to the main claims of the essay?

Is the main point of each paragraph clear in the essay?

Does the essay's conclusion emphasize the main idea and provide a sense of completeness?
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