Poetic Feet
Line Lengths
Metered Words
Prosodic Notation
Definitions
100
An Iamb
What is a poetic foot with an unstressed/stressed syllabic pattern?
100
5 poetic feet
What is pentameter?
100
"Destroy"
What is Iambic?
100
u /
What is an Iamb?
100
The rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in a verse.
What is Poetic Meter?
200
Stressed/Unstressed
What is a Trochee?
200
Octameter
What is a line with 8 poetic feet?
200
"Topsy"
What is Trochaic?
200
| Happy |
What is a foot?
200
A repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse.
What is a Poetic Foot?
300
"Hum Drum"
What is a Spondee?
300
2 poetic feet
What is Dimeter?
300
"Tooth-ache"
What is Spondaic?
300
/ /
What is a Spondee?
300
The most common poetic meter.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
400
"in-ter-VENE"
What is an Anapest?
400
Tetrameter
What is a line with 4 poetic feet?
400
"Multiple"
What is Dactylic?
400
/ u u
What is a Dactyl?
400
The process of determining a line of poetry's rhythm.
What is Scansion?
500
"MER-ri-ly"
What is a Dactyl?
500
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
What is Pentameter?
500
"Unaware"
What is Anapestic?
500
u u
What is a Pyrrhic?
500
The patterns of rhythm and sound in poetry.
What is Prosody?
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u