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Meter. Rainiel De Leon Joey Roldan. What is Meter?. Recurring patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. Basic Patterns of Stress. Iambic foot Trochaic foot Anapestic foot Dactylic foot Spondaic foot

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  1. Meter Rainiel De Leon Joey Roldan

  2. What is Meter? • Recurring patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

  3. Basic Patterns of Stress • Iambic foot • Trochaic foot • Anapestic foot • Dactylic foot • Spondaic foot • METER Def.: Recurring patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

  4. Iambic foot • Consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.

  5. Iambic foot example Before : (be-FORE) Be- = unstressed syllable Fore = stressed syllable Return : (re-TURN) Re- = unstressed syllable Fore = stressed syllable

  6. Trochaic foot • Consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.

  7. Trochaic foot example • Funny : (FUN-ny) • Fun- = stressed syllable • ny = unstressed syllable • Double: (DOU-ble) • Dou- = stressed syllable • ble = unstressed syllable

  8. Anapestic foot • Consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one. • Example: • Contradict = Con-tra-DICT

  9. Dactylic foot • Consists of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones. • Examples: • Merrily = (MER-ri-ly) • Syllable = (SY-lla-ble)

  10. Spondaic foot • Consists of two stressed syllables. • Example: • Moonshine = (MOON-SHINE) • Football = (FOOT–BALL)

  11. LINES • Lines are classified according to the number of metrical feet they contain: • Monometer (one foot) • Dimeter (two feet) • Trimeter (three feet) • Tetrameter (four feet) • Pentameter (five feet) • Hexameter (six feet), and so on…

  12. Examples for the class • “Cruel and sudden, has thou since Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence? Wherein could this flea guilty be, Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?” “The Flea” p. 580 by John Donne Can you name patterns you see? How many metric feet do the lines contain?

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