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Mastering Verse Forms: Understanding Structure and Meter in Poetry

Explore the world of poetry form, from metrical feet to various verse forms like sonnets and ballads. Learn about line lengths, rhyme schemes, and dominant rhythms to enhance your poetic compositions.

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Mastering Verse Forms: Understanding Structure and Meter in Poetry

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  1. Form and Structure

  2. Metrical foot • iamb (^ /) • trochee (/ ^) • anapest (^ ^ /) • dactyl (/ ^ ^ ) • spondee (/ /)

  3. Try it on this • I would not be so all alone, • Everybody must get stoned.

  4. Line Lengths • Monometer • dimeter • trimeter • tetrameter • pentameter • hexameter (alexandrine) • heptameter • octameter

  5. --Number of lines in a stanza--Rhyme Scheme • English Sonnet • Free Verse (note comments about ties to meaning p.573) • ad hoc verse form -- there is a pattern, but not an “established” one. • “Art Ballad” -- based on established form, but so varied so as not to be mistaken for it. (see p. 614 -- Barbara Allen)

  6. Verse Forms • blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) • couplet (aa) • tetrameter couplet (aabb) • terza rima (aba bcb cdc ded) • quatrains • Ballad stanza (abab or abcb) • Heroic quatrains (abab)

  7. Verse Forms • rhyme royal (seven lines -- ababbcc) • ottava rima (abababcc) • Spenserian stanza (nine lines -- ababbcbcc) • Sonnet -- (fourteen lines) • English (abab cdcd efef gg) • Italian (abbaabba cdedce) • There are tons of others -- a whole book full: Haiku, villanelle, limerick, alphabet poem, sestina

  8. Let’s scan one • Dominant rhythm • length of lines • number of lines in a stanza • rhyme scheme of stanzas • Brooks, 737, We Real Cool • Millay, 733, Love is not all:

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