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METER

METER. A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. FOOT. A meter’s basic unit Consists of one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables. 4 BASIC METRICAL FEET. IAMB TROCHEE ANAPEST DACTYL. IAMB. (˘´ ) Unstressed/stressed ˘ ´ Re lief. TROCHEE.

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METER

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  1. METER • A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

  2. FOOT • A meter’s basic unit • Consists of one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables.

  3. 4 BASIC METRICAL FEET • IAMB • TROCHEE • ANAPEST • DACTYL

  4. IAMB (˘´ ) Unstressed/stressed ˘ ´ Re lief

  5. TROCHEE (´˘ ) stressed/unstressed ´ ˘ ap ple

  6. ANAPEST (˘˘´) unstressed/unstressed/stressed ˘ ˘ ´ in tro duce

  7. DACTYL (´˘˘ ) stressed/unstressed/ unstressed ´ ˘ ˘ Broc co li

  8. SPONDEE (´´) Double stress

  9. CAESURA (ll) pause

  10. SCANSION • Analysis of poetic meter • Identify different types of feet used in each line then count them.2nd

  11. Types of meter • Dimeter = 2 feet per line • Trimeter= 3 feet per line • Tetrameter= 4 per line

  12. Pentameter = 5 • Hexameter = 6

  13. Few poems are written with exact meter throughout the entire poem

  14. Perception of meter also varies with the reader • The dominant meter can generally be recognized

  15. Identify the metrical foot • Best of all, victory! • I bought a car today. • Look for hidden pitfalls. • In the cool of the night

  16. Answers: • Dactyl • Iamb • Trochee • Anapest

  17. Edmund Spenser • Regarded himself as primarily a poet • Lived in war-torn Ireland

  18. Wrote The Faerie Queene and Amoretti • Infant son killed in a raid by Irishmen who detested the presence of Englishmen in Ireland

  19. Buried in Westminster near Chaucer in the poets’ corner • Chaucer, Spenser and Milton are regarded as England’s greatest non-dramatic poets.

  20. Paradox • An apparent contradiction that is somehow true.

  21. Conceit • A fanciful and elaborate figure of speech that makes a surprising connection between two seemingly dissimilar things. • Ex. Love of Blaze compared to a baited hook.

  22. Sonnet 30 • What is the paradox stated?

  23. Poet compares his love for a woman to a BLAZING fire • And compares her rejection of his love to ice.

  24. What makes it a paradox? • If he is like fire, why then can he not melt her cold heart, but instead, she gets colder toward him.

  25. Also, if she is like ice, why then does his love for her grow hotter, not cooler with her rejection?

  26. Answer: • Love is so powerful that it can alter the laws of nature.

  27. Couplet • Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry. • Answer to sonnet 30 comes in the form of a couplet.

  28. Sonnet 75 • Speaker describes writing his love’s name in the sand and seeing the waves wash it away twice.

  29. When she protests that it is futile to try to immortalize anything mortal, he promises to make her name and their love live forever through his verse (eternizing conceit).

  30. Conceit • A fanciful and elaborate figure of speech that makes a surprising connection between two seemingly dissimilar things.

  31. Eternizing Conceit • A conceit meant to immortalize someone/thing in words such as a poem.

  32. Petrarchan Sonnet • 14 lines of rhymed iambic pentameter, organized in two stanzas

  33. One stanza has 8 lines (octave) • One stanza has 6 lines (sestet)

  34. Octave is in the rhyming pattern of abbaabba • Sestet is in the rhyming pattern of cdecde

  35. Octave describes a situation or a problem • Sestet describes a change in the situation or a solution to the problem

  36. Turn • The change in the situation is called the TURN.

  37. English Sonnet • Originated during the Renaissance. • Two forms of the English sonnet are the Shakespearean and the Spenserian.

  38. Spenserian sonnet • Consists of 3 four line stanzas (quatrains) and a concluding couplet.

  39. Spenserian sonnet • Rhyme scheme is abab bcbc cdcd ee

  40. In the Faerie Queen • Spenser used the rhyming scheme ababbcbcc with the last line having an extra foot making it a hexameter- this is also called an ALEXANDRINE

  41. The Spenserian Stanza • The nine-line iambic stanza which had only 3 rhymes with the last line having an extra foot was now called the Spenserian Stanza.

  42. Faerie – suggests grand, heroic beings whose superhuman powers come from their own virtue and piety.

  43. Who is the Faerie Queen? • Gloriana, an idealized portrait of Queen Elizabeth

  44. The Faerie Queen as an Allegory • Meant to be an allegory, Spenser intended to create 12 books, with each leading character serving as the embodiment of one virtue or quality.

  45. The Characters • The RedCross Knight – mankind • Duessa- Falsehood • Una - Truth

  46. Sonnet 18 pg 224 • Is a Shakespearean sonnet written in the rhyming format abab cdcd efef gg

  47. Logical Organization • The first two quatrains ask a question and give tentative answers

  48. The turn comes after line 8 with a second turn coming after line 12 • The couplet is the final answer to the question.

  49. The second turn is a final summary meant to have a great impact, such as successfully immortalizing the object.

  50. Eternizing Conceit • A conceit meant to immortalize someone/thing in words such as a poem.

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