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Patterns of Rhythm

Patterns of Rhythm. Bedford Introduction to Literature Chapter 27. Principles of Meter. Measures stressed and unstressed syllables Meter – the pattern of syllables Stressed –  Unstressed – ˘  ˘ ˘ ˘  ˘ Syl- la-ble Syl- la- ble. Meter in Every Day Language.

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Patterns of Rhythm

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  1. Patterns of Rhythm Bedford Introduction to Literature Chapter 27

  2. Principles of Meter • Measures stressed and unstressed syllables • Meter – the pattern of syllables • Stressed –  • Unstressed – ˘  ˘ ˘ ˘  ˘ Syl-la-ble Syl-la-ble

  3. Meter in Every Day Language • Repeat these words: • Away • Lovely • Understand • Desperate • Dead Set

  4. Types of Meter • Foot – a metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured. Contains two or three syllables. Foot Pattern Example ˘  Iamb ˘  a – way  ˘ Trochee  ˘ Love - ly

  5. Types of Meter Foot Pattern Example ˘ ˘  anapest ˘ ˘  un – der - stand  ˘ ˘ dactyl  ˘ ˘ des – per – ate   spondee   dead set Pyrrhic ˘ ˘

  6. Practice Time  ˘ ˘  ˘ ˘  Hickory dickory doc ˘  ˘  ˘  The mouse ran up the clock ˘  ˘  The clock struck one ˘  ˘  And down he run  ˘ ˘  ˘ ˘  Hickory dickory doc

  7. Metrical Lines • Page 894 in the Bedford Rising Meters – metrical lines moving from unstressed to stressed sounds Falling Meters – metrical lines moving from stressed to unstressed sounds

  8. Lines of Poetry • Line - measured by the number of feet it contains monometer – one foot pentameter – five feet dimeter – two feet hexameter – six feet trimeter – three feet heptameter – seven feet tetrameter – four feet octameter – eight feet

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