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Exploring English Poetry's Rhythms and Meters

Learn about the fundamental rhythms and meters in English poetry, from iambic to dactylic, and their varying syllabic patterns and structures.

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Exploring English Poetry's Rhythms and Meters

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  1. rhythm

  2. Rhythm and Meter in English PoetryEnglish poetry employs five basic rhythms of varying stressed (/) and unstressed (x) syllables. • Each unit of rhythm is called a "foot" of poetry

  3. The meters are • iambic • trochaic • spondaic • anapestic • dactylic

  4. Two syllable feet • IAMBIC (x /) : That time of year thou mayst in me behold • TROCHAIC (/ x): Tell me not in mournful numbers • SPONDAIC (/ /): Break, break,

  5. Meters with three-syllable feet • ANAPESTIC (x x /): And the sound of a voice that is still • DACTYLIC (/ x x): This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlock (a trochee replaces the final dactyl)

  6. Each line of a poem contains a certain number of feet • A line of one foot is a monometer, • 2 feet is a dimeter, • trimeter (3), • tetrameter (4), • pentameter (5), • hexameter (6), • heptameter (7), and • octameter (8).

  7. iambic pentameter (5 iambs, 10 syllables) That time | of year | thou mayst | in me | behold

  8. trochaic tetrameter (4 trochees, 8 syllables) Tell me | not in | mournful | numbers

  9. anapestic trimeter (3 anapests, 9 syllables) And the sound | of a voice | that is still

  10. dactylic hexameter (6 dactyls, 18 syllables) This is the | forest pri | meval, the | murmuring | pine and the | hemlocks and

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