Slide 1 ETI 309 Introduction to Contemporary Western Literature A poem should not mean but be. Archibald MacLeish Slide 2 What is poetry? The word poetry is derived from…
Slide 1 Where do you find poetry? Consider this: “We drove to the cave in silence. When we arrived, She whispered to the piano player, Then took my hand. We danced. And…
Slide 1 Scansion and Rhyme Scheme! Everything you wanted to know…and some things you didn’t!! Slide 2 Scansion The act of determining the metrical character of a line…
By Andrew Lee 7E An in-depth guide to the fascinatingly splendid candid aspect of meter. (yay) What is meter? Meter :: is the pattern of the syllables in the lines of a poem.…
What is a meter? By Jamie Shin What is a meter? Meter in poetry is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. There are many meter patterns are: iambic, trochaic,…
Meter (Rhythm) and Rhyme Verse is generally distinguished from prose as a more compressed and more regular rhythmic form of statement. Meter is the means by which rhythm…