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Terms you should know

In order to have an intelligent discussion of meter, it is necessary to set forth a few preliminary definitions. These should be enough terms to get us started. You might also want to read the WRC article Rhythm and Stress by Gwyneth Box.

Poetic Meter: Word choices that create a pattern of sounds, stresses, word lengths, syllables, or beats that are repeated to create a line of poetry. In English the focus is generally on stresses and beats, but all patterns make for possible meters and other languages often focus on different types of patterns.

Beat: The smallest reducible part of a meter, such as a syllable.

Foot: A repeated unit of meter – usually two, three or four beats.

Stressed Syllable: The syllable a speaker emphasizes in speech. Shown here in Capital letters: CARpet, RABbit, oPEN, PATsy. Stressed syllables are also called long syllables.

Unstressed Syllable: The syllable a speaker demphasizes in speech. Shown here in lowercase letters: CARpet, RABbit, oPEN, PATsy. Unstressed syllables are also called short syllables.

Other Terms

Amphibrach: A foot that consists of a stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables. This meter is most commonly seen in limericks. There ONCE was a HAPpy young PASTor.

Anapest: A foot that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a long syllable such as Double UP double DOWN.

Choriamb: A foot that consists of four syllables: stressed,-unstressed,-unstressed,-stressed such as FIGHT for your RIGHTS.

Dactyl: A foot that consists of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. HAPpily

Dimeter: A meter that consists of two feet.

Elegiac Meter: A meter that consists of two lines (a couplet) the first in dactylic hexameter and the second in dactylic pentameter.

Heptameter: A meter that consists of seven feet

Hexameter: A meter that consists of six feet

Iamb: A foot comprising an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable such as TYrant. This is the most commonly used foot in English poetic meter.

Iambic Pentameter: A meter that consists of five feet of iambs. This is the meter common to sonnets, epics and Shakespearian plays.

Molossus: A foot that consists of three stressed syllables such as SHORT SHARP SHOCK.

Octameter: A meter that consists of eight feet

Pentameter: A meter that consists of five feet

Tetrameter: A meter that consists of four feet

Trimeter: A meter that consists of three feet

Trochee: A foot that consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable such as PLAYpen.

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A writing challenge; try this...

Write a poem using one of the above terms as a crutch....... Please feel free to put your poem up on my talk page, sign your name and date it please.......

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