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Post by Admin on Nov 15, 2013 18:48:47 GMT
Iambic Pentameter
This term describes the meters in English accented-syllable verse. Relatively natural in English, alternating emphasis, or stress, on syllables creates the rhythm. Rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables, called "feet". Describing the metric rhythm that words establish in each line, iambic foot is a pattern with an *unstressed syllable followed by one /stressed (as in *com/mit). "Pentameter" indicates that a line has five of these feet. Iambic pentameter is made up of ten-syllable lines in which natural accents are on even-numbered syllables. This is among the most common metrical forms in English poetry including the heroic couplet, blank verse, and some traditional rhymed stanza forms: like sonnets.
What is "Meter?"
What types of meter are there?
Iambic
Trochaic
Dactylic
Anapestic
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