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Forman example of monometre
Thus I
Pass by
And die,
As one,
Unknown,
And gone:
I'm made
A shade,
And laid
I'th grave,
There have
My cave.
Where tell
I dwell,
Farewell.
KINDS OF STANZAS
Couplet = a two line stanza
Triplet (Tercet) = a three line stanza
Quatrain = a four line stanza
Quintet = a five line stanza
Sestet (Sextet) = a six line stanza
Septet = a seven line stanza
Octave = an eight line stanza
And now... SOUND EFFECTS
What is RHYTHM?
The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem
Rhythm can be created by metre, rhyme, alliteration and refrain.
METRE
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter occurs when the stressed and unstressed syllables of the words in a poem are arranged in a repeating pattern.
When poets write in metre, they count out the number of stressed (strong) syllables and unstressed (weak) syllables for each line. They they repeat the pattern throughout the poem.
METRE cont.
Kinds of Metrical Lines monometre = one foot on a line dimetre = two feet on a line trimetre = three feet on a line tetrametre = four feet on a line pentametre = five feet on a line Exametre/Alexandrine = six feet on a
line heptametre = seven feet on a line octometer = eight feet on a line
FREE VERSE POETRY
Unlike metered poetry, free verse poetry does NOT have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Does NOT have rhyme.
Free verse poetry is very conversational - sounds like someone talking with you. Robert Frost wrote: “Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down”.
Another modern type of poetry is the figurative poem.
Type + Number = Metre
Types of Poetic Feet• Iambic (1 unstressed + 1 stressed)
• Trochaic (1 stressed + 1 unstressed)
• Anapestic (2 unstressed + 1 stressed)
• Dactylic (1 stressed + 2 unstressed)
• Spondaic (all syllables equal)
Number of feet per line
MonometreDimetreTrimetreTetrametre Pentametre Exametre