Versification: Rhythm, Meter and Rhyme

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Culture & Literature (Definition, etc.) Flashcards on Versification: Rhythm, Meter and Rhyme, created by Lisza Neumeier on 16/12/2016.
Lisza Neumeier
Flashcards by Lisza Neumeier, updated more than 1 year ago
Lisza Neumeier
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iamb unstressed - stressed again, discuss, benign, perhaps
trochee stressed-unstressed happy, never, gladly, nowhere
anapest unstressed - unstressed - stressed entertain, hurry up
spondee stressed heart break, wine glass, Big Mac, men talk
dactyl stressed - unstressed - unstressed dangerous, happiness, orchestra
3 feet Trimeter
4 feet Tetrameter
5 feet Pentameter
6 feet Hexameter
7 feet Heptameter
8 feet Octameter
meter of the poem = stress pattern + number of stresses per line eg. iambic tetrameter, dactyllic dimeter, ..
end-stopped lines “syntactic unit comes to a close at the end of the line” – pause at the end of lines, individual words are emphasized
run-on lines (enjambment): “syntactical unit carries into the next line” – can speed up the rhythm of the poem; yet also pauses
end-rhyme vs internal rhyme And I‘m here in the Clink for a thundering drink and blacking the (Kipling, Barrack.-Room Ballads)
alternate rhyme: ABAB CDCD...
embracing rhyme ABBA CDDC...
rhyming couplets: AA BB CC...
continuous rhyme: AAAA BBBB...
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