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Rhythm and Meter REVIEW

Rhythm and Meter REVIEW. By: Chelsea McKean, Chelsie Williams, Caleb Joyce and Peter Bales. What is Rhythm?. The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. Rhythm can be sporadic while meter is regular. What is a foot/feet?. It’s each unit of rhythm.

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Rhythm and Meter REVIEW

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  1. Rhythm and Meter REVIEW By: Chelsea McKean, Chelsie Williams, Caleb Joyce and Peter Bales

  2. What is Rhythm? • The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. Rhythm can be sporadic while meter is regular.

  3. What is a foot/feet? • It’s each unit of rhythm.

  4. Match theTwo-Syllable Feet • Stressed and then stressed • Unstressed than stressed • Stressed than unstressed • Iambic • Trochaic • Spondaic

  5. Match the Three Syllable Feet • Stressed then two unstressed • Two unstressed then stressed • Anapestic • Dactylic

  6. Examples of Two- Syllable: • IAMBIC (x /) : That time of year thoumayst in me behold • TROCHAIC (/ x): Tell me not in mournful numbers • SPONDAIC (/ /): Break, break, break/ On thy coldgraystones, O Sea!

  7. Examples of Three-Syllable: • ANAPESTIC (x x /): And the sound of a voice that is still • DACTYLIC (/ x x): This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlock (a trochee replaces the final dactyl)

  8. Your Turn

  9. What is Meter? • Is the measure of a line of poetry . The number of feet in a line of a verse determines the meter. • Syllable is the smallest unit, foot is second largest unit, and line is the largest unit. • Two syllables make a foot and multiple feet make a line.

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