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This is the second part of your poetry hand-outs. I have prepared the hard copy to be distributed to you the moment we resume classes. I will also be posting the other topics for this grading... Keep safe everyone and God bless us all.
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Scanning is the name for the technique of
determining the metrical foot and meter of
a poem. When scanning poetry, we use an ictus
(') to mark a strong stress, and a breve (˘) to mark weaker stress.
Another way to describe a metrical foot is
to say that each metrical foot is made up
of a particular pattern of strong and weak stresses.
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Iamb
- William Shakespeare’s plays, an example from Julius Caesar :
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good
is oft interred with their bones.
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Trochee - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Hiawatha
There the
wrinkled old Nokomis, Nursed the little Hiawatha. . .
Tell me,
tell me, smiling child,
What the
past is like to thee- Emily Bronte
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Dactyls are used to begin the Mother
Goose rhyme:
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Alfred Tennyson
. .Cannon to left of them
Cannon to right of them
Volleyed and thundred.
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Anapests
- Clement Moore’s “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” commonly known as “’Twas the Night Before
‘Twas the night before Christmas,
when all thro’ the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. . . .
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
“ … for the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
And the stars never rise but I fell the
bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
Poetry Terms
Accent- the prominence or emphasis given to
a syllable or word. In the word poetry, the accent (or stress) falls on the
first syllable.
Alexandrine- A line of poetry that has 12 syllables
and derives from a medieval romance about Alexander the Great that was written
in 12-syllable lines.
Caesura- A grammatical pause or break in a line of poetry (like a
question mark), usually near the middle of the line.
Elision- refers to the
leaving out of an unstressed syllable or vowel, usually in order to keep a
regular meter in a line of poetry for example 'o'er' for 'over'.
Enjambment- comes from the French word for "to
straddle." Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence form one line or
couplet into the next and derives from the French verb 'to straddle'. An
example by Joyce Kilmer is 'I think that I shall never see/A poem as lovely as
a tree'.
Falling Meter- Trochaic and dactylic meters are called
falling meters because they move from stressed to unstressed syllables.
Foot --two or more syllables that together make
up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem. For example, an iamb is a foot that
has two syllables, one unstressed followed by one stressed. An anapest has
three syllables, two unstressed followed by one stressed.
Persona- refers to the narrator or speaker of the
poem, not to be confused with the author.
Refrain- a phrase, line, or group of lines that
is repeated throughout a poem, usually after every stanza.
Rhythm- is significant in poetry because poetry is so emotionally
charged and intense. Rhythm can be measured in terms of heavily stressed to
less stressed syllables. Rhythm is measured in feet, units usually consisting
of one heavily accented syllable and
one or more lightly accented syllable.
Rising Meter- anapestic and iambic meters are called
rising meters because they move from an unstressed syllable to a stressed
syllable.
Scansion- the analysis of a poem's meter. This is usually done by
marking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line and then, based on
the pattern of the stresses, dividing the line into feet.
Spondee- a metrical foot of two syllables, both
of which are long (or stressed).
Stanza - two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. The stanzas of a poem
Stanza - two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. The stanzas of a poem
are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of
meter and rhyme.
Stress - refers to the accent or emphasis, either strong or weak,
given to each syllable in a piece of writing, as determined by conventional pronunciation
Trochee - metrical foot of two syllables, one long
(or stressed) and one short (or unstressed).
Catalexis: The absence of a syllable in the final foot in a line. In Blake's poem, an unstressed syllable is absent in the last foot of each line. Thus, every line has seven syllables, not the conventional eight.
Catalexis: The absence of a syllable in the final foot in a line. In Blake's poem, an unstressed syllable is absent in the last foot of each line. Thus, every line has seven syllables, not the conventional eight.
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http://www.wisegeek.org/what-are-metrical-feet.htm
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