Monday 21 November 2011

Notes:
Meter- recurrence of regular beats in a poetic line. The most common unit of meter is the Foot.
Foot-Combination of two or three stressed and/or unstressed syllables.
Meter also refers to the number of feet in a line. To scan a line is to determine its metrical pattern.

Four Most Common Metrical Feet in English Poetry

1. Iambic (u /)
   
2. Trochaic (/ u)
   
3. Anapestic (u u /)
4. Dactylic (/ u u)

Number of Feet

• Monometer
• Dimeter
• Trimeter
• Tetrameter
• Pentameter

Happy Birthday = trochaic dimeter HAppy BIRTHday

Sonnets: 14 lines, Iambic Pentameter, Shakespeare not very popular, but he liked to write them.


ROUGH DRAFT FOR EXPLICATION PAPER AND FINAL FOR METAPHOR PAPER DUE: DECEMBER 1.
YOU HAVE 10 DAYS! (just thought I'd let you know)

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