Playing and Poetry

Part One

Rhythm- a patterned repetition of a motif, formal element, etc., at regular or irregular intervals in the same or a modified form.

Rhyme scheme- the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal, ababbcc.

Alliteration- The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in "on scrolls of silver snowy sentences" (Hart Crane). Modern alliteration is predominantly consonantal; certain literary traditions, such as Old English verse, also alliterate using vowel sounds.

Anaphora- repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.

Consonance- correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.

Assonance- rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.

Part Two

Love Like Sand

I felt love my hands
They slip through my fingers
Like grains of fine sand
Parts of a whole shattered apart
Burring in the sun
Sad lonely parts
Until the tide washes
And the waves join whats broken
Making a blanket of one
Until the tide recedes
And then brittle
They fall through my fingers

Bye, bye.