can someone pls help me with english iambic pentameters and all the different pentameters, pls help?
I need help with what a foot, meter and pentameters are pls help
dactyl, trochee iambic, need help with these.
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February 18th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
http://www.poetry.com/techniques/content.asp?ref=44
February 18th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Well, let’s start with the beginning.
Poetry generally comes with something called “meter”. Meter is the structure of the rhythm of the poem, based usually on word stress and syllables.
A foot is a basic building block of meter. The name of the meter type usually hints to how many feet should be in the meter (e.x. iambic PENTAMETER ==> penta (5) + meter ==> 5 feet per line; trochaic TETRAMETER ==> tetra (4) + meter ==> 4 feet per line).
There are many different types of feet. Usually, you’ll see the most commonly used foot as part of the name of the meter (IAMBIC pentameter (iambs) , TROCHAIC tetrameter (trochees)). They are usually comprised of two or three syllables, each syllable either considered “stressed” or “unstressed”. Usually, it’s hard at first to pick up whether words are stressed or unstressed. Types include…
Iambs — These will be the most common type you’ll encounter in poetry. They follow an unstressed-stressed or “da DUM” format. Words that form iambs include comPARE, deSCRIBE, and conTROL.
Trochees — These are the opposite of iambs. They follow a stressed-unstressed or “DUM da” format. They are the most common type in single-word feet. You can hear it by saying the nursery rhyme line “Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, had a wife but couldn’t keep her.”
Dactyls — Dactyls have three syllables rather than two. They follow the Stressed-unstressed-unstressed or “DUM da da” format. Words such as INnocent, POTtery, and TURbulence follow this format, and it can be seen in “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” by the Beatles, from the line “PICture yourSELF in a BOAT on a RIVer with / TANgerine TREE-ees and MARmalade SKI-ii-ies.”
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