4-8 pg. 35-75 note


Prose- is printed or written within the confines of margins

Poetry-written in lines that do not necessarily pay attention to margins

Scansion- the dividing a line into its metrical feet and each foot into its individual parts

Spondee- two stresses of equal weight can replace the iambic foot

Trochee- heavy stress followed by a light stress

Dactyl- one heavy stress followed by 2 light stress

Anapest- 2 light stress followed by heavy stress

Caesura- Structurural and logical pauses within and only within the line, and usually but not always in a metrical foot itself
    Ex. Fred, where is North? North? North is there, my love. (There is an uncounted stress in this example)


Iambic pentameter- widely used line in English metrical verse (Shakespeare)
    Ex. Forlorn! |The ver|y word| is like| a bell
Tetrameter- (four foot)
  Ex. I wan|dered lone|ly as| a cloud
The difference between the two is only a single foot.
Tetrameter has quickness
Pentameter has fullness but not over fullness and matches the breath capacity

Free verse poetry is entirely up to the poet on how the set up is and the rythemn ryhme scheme is set up. Alliteration, assonance repetition are important for it to actually have flow
Long liens and repetition with a little pattern


Ex.
so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

Emjamment and this poem isn’t extremely abstract. It makes you think what is the author trying it say becuase how short it is and why is he trying to connect these objects and thjngs.


Syllabic verse- pattern is set up, and followed in which the number of syllables in front of each of the lines of the first stanza is exactly repeated in the following stanzas
Two or three lines for a reader to feel rhythm
Variation is good, and wakes the reader up from hearing the same things repeate Dover and over again
Similar sounds at the end of two or more lines creates cohesion.
Slant rhyme ex. Like down and noon
Feminine ryhme that ends in a light stress
Masculine ryhme that end in a stressed syllable
When a poem is too regular it becomes boring
Rythemn can be different even if the poem follows the same style as another
Meaningful rhythm can entice readers
Stanza can be set up however the poet wants them but the lines should have some unison

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