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Understanding Line and Meter in Poetry

Explore the two types of lines - endstopped and enjambed - and the regular patterns of accent and syllables in meter. Learn about different poetic feet and famous examples.

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Understanding Line and Meter in Poetry

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  1. Line And Meter Valentina Widya

  2. Line? There are two kinds of lines: • An endstopped line • An enjambed line

  3. An endstopped line Where the movement of the sentence works with the movement of the line Example: I must have turned down the wrong ball, or opened a door that locked shut behind me, for I live on the ceiling now, not the floor.

  4. An enjambed line Happens when the sentences movement conflicts with the line movement Example: • I used to lie on my back, imagining a reverse house on the ceiling of my house • The floor so far away I can’t determine Which room I’m in, which year, which life.

  5. Meter The regular pattern of accented(stressed) and unaccented(unstressed) syllables in line. Although all poems have rhythm not all poems have a regular meter. FOOT : a unit of each pair of unstressed and stressed syllables A foot is made up of unstressed (˘) and stressed (/) syllables

  6. Poetry has feet?

  7. How many feet ?

  8. Here are the example • Iambic pentameter (5 iambs, 10 syllables) That time of year thou mayst in me behold 2. Trochaic tetrameter ( 4 trochees, 8 syllables) Tell me not in mournful numbers 3. Anapestic trimeter ( 3 anapest, 9 syllables) And the sound of a voice that is still

  9. Iambic Pentameter ten syllables with 2nd, 4th 6th, 8th, 10th syllables accented. Shakespeare write his works in iambic pentameter

  10. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date.Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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