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Poetry Meter: Stressed and Unstressed Syllables

Understand stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry including basic terms like foot, iamb, iambic pentameter, and more. Discover the rhythm and structure of different poetic forms.

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Poetry Meter: Stressed and Unstressed Syllables

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  1. Poetry Terms!

  2. Important Terms • Stressed and Unstressed Syllables: When a word has more than one syllable, one is more prominent than the others. When this happens, we say that the syllable has a stress, or that it is stressed. In the following examples, stressed syllables are expressed with boldface. Tea.cher Beau.ti.ful Un.der.stand Con.ti.nue Con.ti.nu.a.tion

  3. Poetry Terms When a syllable is stressed, it is pronounced: • longer in duration • higher in pitch, and • louder in volume

  4. Poetry Terms • Foot: The basic unit of meter. A foot is usually one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables. • Iamb: The most common foot. One unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. • Iambic Pentameter: A line containing five iambs. • Blank Verse: Verse consisting of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. • Couplet: Rhyming stanzas each made up of two lines. Shakespearean sonnets usually end in a couplet. • Free Verse: Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metical pattern or expectation.

  5. Poetry Terms • Meter: Regularized rhythms. An arrangement of language in which the accents occur at apparently equal intervals in time. Each repeated unit of meter is called a foot.

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