One Foot, Two Foot, Red Foot, Blue Foot
A metrical foot consisting of 1 unstressed syllable followed by 1 stressed syllable.
What is an iamb?
A line of verse with five metrical feet that each consist of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic pentameter?
A line of verse with four metrical feet that each consist of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
What is trochaic tetrameter?
A 14-line poem with an ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme.
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
What is an example of iambic tetrameter?
A metrical foot consisting of 1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable.
What is a trochee?
A line of first with two metrical feet that each consist of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
What is dactylic dimeter?
A line of verse with three metrical feet that each consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic trimeter?
A 19-line poem with an ABA rhyme scheme and 2 repeated refrains.
What is a villanelle?
"Double, double toil and trouble"
What is an example of trochaic tetrameter?
A metrical foot consisting of 1 stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllables.
What is a dactyl?
A line of verse with four metrical feet that each consist of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.
What is anapestic tetrameter?
A line of verse with six metrical feet that each consist of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
What is dactylic hexameter?
A 14-line poem with an ABBAABBACDECDE rhyme scheme.
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
"This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,"
What is an example of dactylic hexameter?
A metrical foot consisting of 2 unstressed syllables followed by 1 stressed syllable.
What is an anapest?
A line of verse with three metrical feet the each consist of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
What is trochaic trimeter?
A line of verse with seven metrical feet that each consist of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, except for the third and fourth feet, which contain a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
What is an example of anapestic heptameter?
A poem composed of quatrains in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next.
What is a pantoum?
"There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti"
What is an example of iambic pentameter (with a substitution)?
The two "substitution" feet. Composed of two unstressed syllables and two stressed syllables, respectively.
What are Pyrrhics and Spondees?
A line of verse with six metrical feet that each consist of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, except for one foot which contains two stressed syllables.
What is an example of trochaic hexameter?
A line of verse that scans like this: unstressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, unstressed, stressed.
What is anapestic tetrameter?
An unrhymed 39-line poem with end words that repeat in a changing pattern
What is a sestina?
"I am a monarch of all I survey."
What is an example of anapestic trimeter?