Musical Devices used in poetry and Muses of Art

Introduction : Musical Devices that used in poetry and Muses of Art explained with examples. It includes Alliteration, consonance, assonance, rhyme, refrain and nine muses of Greek mythology.

Musical Devices used in poetry

Musical devices used in poetry to create musical effect. There are many musical devices used in poetry some of them as follow:

Alliteration (A Musical Device Used in Poetry)

The repetition of initial consonant sounds of words close togather in a phrase or line of poetry is called ‘Alliteration‘. Examples:

• Dark drop
• Tip top
• Breeze blue
• Cold coffee

Consonance (A Musical Device Used in Poetry)

The repetition of final consonant sounds of words close together in a phrase or line of poetry is called ‘Consonance‘. Examples:

• Tip top
• Cool school
• Late straight gate
• Boy joy
• Twinkle little

Assonance (A Musical Device Used in Poetry)

Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel sounds in words close together, in a phrase or line of poetry. Examples:

• Twinkle twinkle little
• Pumps buckets
• Fungus bucket plummeted
• Drop moss
• Hovered bottom
• Rope so no
• In brickyard rich
• Spring is dignity
• Rhyme myself

Rhyme (A Musical Device Used in Poetry)

Rhyme is the repetition of sounds at the end of words. Two words rhyme when there accented vowel and all succeeding sounds are identical. Normally the last word of one line and the last word of the second/ third/ fourth line were rhymed. example:

• abba
• aabb
• abab
• abca etc

Refrain (A Musical Device Used in Poetry)

Refrain is regularly repeated line or phrase in a poem or song.  Examples:

“Come hither, come hither, come hither” in the poem “As you like it“.

Muses of Art (Presided on Art)

There are nine goddesses/nine muses in Greek mythology who presided on arts. These goddesses are as follows:

1. Calliope:———————Epic poetry
2. Clio:————————–History
3. Erato:————————Love poetry
4. Melpomene:—————-Tragedy
5. Euterpe:———————Lyric poetry
6. Polyhymnia:—————-Hymn
7. Thalia:———————–Comedy
8. Urania:———————-History
9. Terpsichore:—————Dancing

Poets traditionally invoke the aid of  the muse to help them to write. So, the word has come to denote a “poet’s inspiration“.

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