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Midterm Poetry Guide. Prosody – the science of poetical forms, including quantity and accent of syllables, meter and versification and metrical composition. Verse – A single metrical (pentameter, hexameter)or rhythmical line made up of a number of feet, arranged according to a specific rule.
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Prosody – the science of poetical forms, including quantity and accent of syllables, meter and versification and metrical composition. Verse – A single metrical (pentameter, hexameter)or rhythmical line made up of a number of feet, arranged according to a specific rule. Scansion – Act or art of scanning verse to show its metrical parts. Meter – A measured verbal rhythm. Accent – A stress (–) of voice on a particular syllable in pronouncing a word; de facto indicates the unaccented (). Foot – A primary measure of poetic rhythm corresponding to a bar of music. Iambic – A two-syllable foot of one short or unaccented syllable followed by a long or accented one. ( –) Trochaic – A two-syllable foot of one long and one short. (– ) Anapestic – A three-syllable foot of two short syllables followed by a long syllable. ( –) Dactylic – A three-syllable foot of one long syllable followed by two short ones. (– ) Cretic – A three-syllable foot. (– –) Glyconic – A line of verse having three trochees and one dactyl.