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What is a meter?

What is a meter?. By Jamie Shin. What is a meter?. Meter in poetry is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. There are many meter patterns are: iambic, trochaic, dactylic, and anapestic (there will be more later on). What is a foot?. Each pair of unstressed and stressed syllables

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What is a meter?

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  1. What is a meter? • By Jamie Shin

  2. What is a meter? • Meter in poetry is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. • There are many meter patterns are: iambic, trochaic, dactylic, and anapestic (there will be more later on)

  3. What is a foot? • Each pair of unstressed and stressed syllables • There are many different foot lengths: • Monometer-One Foot • Dimeter-Two Feet • Trimeter-Three Feet • Tetrameter- Four Feet • Pentameter- Five Feet • ..Hexameter • Six Feet • ..Heptameter • Seven Feet • ..Octameter • Eight Feet • ddd

  4. syllable patterns 1 • ...Iamb (Iambic) • Unstressed + Stressed • .........Two Syllables • ...Trochee (Trochaic) • Stressed + Unstressed • .........Two Syllables

  5. syllable patterns 2 • ...Spondee (Spondaic) • Stressed + Stressed • .........Two Syllables • ...Anapest (Anapestic) • Unstressed + Unstressed + Stressed • .........Three Syllables

  6. syllable patterns 3 • ...Dactyl (Dactylic • Stressed + Unstressed + Unstressed • .........Three Syllables • Catalexis- absence of an unstressed syllable

  7. example 1 • ShallI..|..comPARE..|..theeTO..|..aSUM..|..mer’s DAY? • this is an iambic pentameter- there are 5 feet, making it a penta (five) meter, and the syllable pattern is unstressed.. stressed, which makes it a iambic.

  8. example 2 • This is a trochaic tetrameter (4 trochees, 8 syllables) : Tell me | not in | mournful | numbers • This is an anapestic trimeter (3 anapests, 9 syllables) :And the sound | of a voice | that is still • This is a adactylic hexameter (6 dactyls, 17 syllables; a trochee replaces the last dactyl) :This is the | forest pri | meval, the | murmuring | pine and the | hemlocks

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