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Versification: Rhythm, Meter and Rhyme
Cards in this deck (19)
- 1iambunstressed - stressed
again, discuss, benign, perhaps - 2trocheestressed-unstressed
happy, never, gladly, nowhere - 3anapestunstressed - unstressed - stressed
entertain, hurry up - 4spondeestressed
heart break, wine glass, Big Mac, men talk - 5dactylstressed - unstressed - unstressed
dangerous, happiness, orchestra - 63 feetTrimeter
- 74 feetTetrameter
- 85 feetPentameter
- 96 feetHexameter
- 107 feetHeptameter
- 118 feetOctameter
- 12meter of the poem =stress pattern + number of stresses per line
eg. iambic tetrameter, dactyllic dimeter, .. - 13end-stopped lines“syntactic unit comes to a close at the end of the line”
– pause at the end of lines, individual words are emphasized - 14run-on lines (enjambment):“syntactical unit carries into the next line”
– can speed up the rhythm of the poem; yet also pauses - 15end-rhyme vs internal rhymeAnd I‘m here in the Clink for a thundering drink and blacking the (Kipling, Barrack.-Room Ballads)
- 16alternate rhyme:ABAB CDCD...
- 17embracing rhymeABBA CDDC...
- 18rhyming couplets:AA BB CC...
- 19continuous rhyme:AAAA BBBB...
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