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The commonly used names for line lengths are: Pentameter is one name for the number of feet in a line.This is a meter especially familiar because it occurs in all blank verse (such as Shakespeare’s plays), heroic couplets, and sonnets. The scansion of this quatrain from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 shows the following accents and divisions into feet (note the following words were split: behold, yellow, upon, against, ruin'd):Ī frequently heard metrical description is iambic pentameter: a line of five iambs. trochaic and dactylic meters are called falling.Iambic and anapestic meters are called rising meters because their movement rises from unstressed syllable to stressed With the sheep in the fold and the cows in their stallsĭactyl: foot contains three syllables with the stress on the first syllable.The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love Īnapest- three syllables with the stress on the last syllable.

Dou/ ble, / dou / ble/ toil /and/ trou/ble.

Trochee- a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

A /jug / of /wine/ a /loaf/ of /bread /–and /though/.

A/ book /of /over/ seas/ un/ der/ neath /the/ bough.

Iambic- two syllable foot with stress on second syllable

Thus, when we describe the rhythm of a poem, we “scan” the poem and mark the stresses (/) and absences of stress (^) and count the number of feet.

Describing the rhythms of poetry by dividing the lines into feet, marking the locations of stressed and unstressed syllables, and counting the syllables.

the number and pattern of feet in a line.

unit of meter (two or three syllables).

the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.

Meter signifies both TYPE of pattern and NUMBER OF PATTERN.

Unstressed (u) is unaccented or short syllable.

Stressed syllable (‘) is the accented or long syllable.

Meter: Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line.

When asked the question- what’s the rhythm? You might answer regarding-rhyme scheme, meter (Both type and Pattern)METER

Vachel Lindsay's "The Congo" consciously recreates the rhythms of a tribal dance: Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room Barrel-housekings, with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, Pounded on the table, Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom, Hard as they were able Boom, boom, BOOM, With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom, Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM.

In poems, as in songs, a rhythm may be obvious or muted. Don’t believe me? Welp I gotta go now.Frequently such conversations end with Conversant A uttering a five- or six-syllable line, followed by Conversant B's five to six syllables, followed by A's two- to four-syllable line, followed by B's two to four syllables, and so on until the receivers are cradled.Almost every telephone conversation ends rhythmically, with the conversants understanding as much by rhythm as by the meaning of the words, that it is time to hang up.In speech, we use rhythm without consciously creating recognizable patterns.The repetition of a pattern of such emphasis is what produces a "rhythmic effect." The word rhythm comes from the Greek, meaning "measured motion.".In poetry, rhythm implies that certain words are produced more force- fully than others, and may be held for longer duration. Rhythm in writing is like the beat in music.Rhythm occurs in all forms of language, both written and spoken, but is particularly important in poetry.The pattern or musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.a pattern or sequence where the rhyme occurs.