Rhyming couplets are two lines of iambic verse
that end in the same sound or a rhyme, they
are often used to sum up the end of a character's
speech.
Rhyming couplets, rhyming couplets, rhyme,
couplets, to two rhymes, two rhymes that work
together, yes? Normally at the end of a line
but can we go straight on to an exercise,
Katie, Jamie and Patrick, would you mind just
reading the end word of the first line and
then we'll read the end word of the next line,
we'll just read out the end words and see
oh, I see,
see what happens, see if it is in rhyme, see
if there are a couple of rhymes together
bow
head
doves
loves
queen
seen
broke
spoke
me
thee
Very nice, good.
Rhyming couplets feel like complete thoughts
on their own and whenever you see or hear
them in a text, you'll really notice them.
When characters use these, they are choosing
to make a point in a poetic way.
Let's do that again and just notice what the
images are and again
bow
head
doves
loves
queen
seen
broke
spoke
me
thee
good, are they rhyming words?
Yes
Yes, very nice
Except for bow and head
Except for bow and head, yes
(claps in a rhythm which actors finish)
or if I went - da-de-da-da-da
(Actors finish rhythm) Ba-ba
Yeah, exactly, it's, it's like there's a sonorous
expectation
yeah when you have those rhymes set up one
after another one after another that it feels
like it sort of plays in to, like an extra
something and then it really -
The antithesis stuff as well, like it gets
evens heightened like, the vows that men have
broke that women have spoke like the perfect
humm
What I like yeah,
Yeah
So, you start seeing exercises within exercises
which is great.
There is something that helps to stitch up
a character's thoughts at the end of something
or to give it a final punctuation or a full
stop before you leave a space or
Yeah
This is the end of my thought, bang.
I'm going to cut you dead or cut of your heads
if you have but it's also when people are
mean absolutely what they say, mean not just
when they're joking is it, it's when they
are absolutely dead serious.
What's the one that Macbeth where ''Hear it
not Duncan, for it is a knell / That summons
thee to heaven or to hell' and that's his
exit line and -
Perfect
And then he kills someone.-
Perfect
Which isn't a lovely one but it's
Yeah
But it sounds scary
It sounds really resolved like he's definitely
going to do it.
