Iambic Each foot of iambic poetry is comprised of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable da DUM Invade the castle enter now The stressed and unstressed syllables are charted as below ID: 915802
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Meter!
It’s how we get rhythm.
Slide2Iambic
Each foot of iambic poetry is comprised of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (da DUM).
Invade the castle; enter now!
The stressed and unstressed syllables are charted as below.Invade the castle; enter now!
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Slide3Iambic
Each foot of poetry is marked below. Remember that in iambic, one foot has two syllables.
Invade the castle; enter now!
The line above has four feet of iambic poetry.
Slide4Just so you know what you’re missing…
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rochaic
= one stressed and one unstressed (DUM da) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.anapestic = two unstressed and one stressed (da da DUM) And today the Great
Yertle that marvelous hedactylic = one stressed and two unstressed (DUM da da)
This is the party medieval, the jousting and eating is…spondaic
= two evenly stressed syllablespyrrhic = two evenly unstressed syllables
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Slide5Pentameter
Regardless of metrical form—iambic, trochaic, etc.—lines written in pentameter have
five feet
of poetry.In iambic pentameter, a popular pairing, each line has ten syllables since each foot of iambic is two syllables. Besides that time thou should in me behold
1 2 3 4 5
Slide6Other Common Pairings
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rochaic tetrameter
4 feet of trochaic = 8 syllablesanapestic trimeter 3 feet of anapestic = 9 syllables
dactylic hexameter 6 feet of dactylic = 18 syllables
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Slide7All one meter all the time?
Not necessarily. A writer can alter the meter for emphasis.
Read these lines from “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats.
Thou still unravished bride of quietness
Thou foster child of silence and slow time Each is iambic pentameter,
but parts of it sound off, right?
Slide8All one meter all the time?
Thou
foster child of silence and slow time (
u’u’u’u’’’)Read the end of the second line aloud. Is “slow” stressed differently from “time”? Keats ends that line with a foot of spondaic poetry.
A change in syllable pattern changes the way we say and hear a line, bringing attention to the altered segment.
Slide9Meter in Song Lyrics
Lyrics are often written in iambic
trimeter
(3 feet per line), iambic tetrameter (4 feet per line), or a combination of the two. O beautiful for spacious skies, 8 syllables For amber waves of grain
, 6 syllables For purple mountain majesties 8 syllables
Above the fruited plain! 6 syllables
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Slide10Mark the meter of these lines.
New slang when you notice the stripes, the dirt in your fries.
Hope it's right when you die, old and bony.
Dawn breaks like a bull through the hall, Never should have called But my head's to the wall and I'm lonely. --“New Slang” by the Shins
**Neither iambic nor pentameter. See “Never” to check for iambic. Count syllables to check for pentameter.
Slide11Mark the meter of these lines.
Every time I see your face
It reminds me of the places we used to go But all I've got is a photograph
And I realize you're not coming back anymore-- “Photograph” by Ringo
Starr**Neither iambic nor pentameter. See “Every” to check for iambic. Count the syllables to check for pentameter.
Slide12Mark the meter of these lines.
I'm living in the
twenty-first
century doin' something mean to itDo it better then anybody you ever seen do itScreams from the haters, got a nice ring to itI guess every superhero need his theme music
--“Power” by Kanye West”**Neither iambic nor pentameter. See “century” to check for iambic. Count the syllables to check for pentameter.
Slide13Mark the meter of these lines.
You wake up late for school man you don't
wanna
goYou ask your mom, "Please?" but she still says, "No!"You missed two classes and no homeworkBut your teacher preaches class like you're some kind of jerk
-- “Fight for Your Right” by the Beastie Boys**First and third lines are iambic! BUT second and fourth aren’t. See “teacher preaches” to rule it out. Count the syllables to check for pentameter.
Slide14Mark the meter of these lines.
I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain The only thing that's real --“Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails**Iambic through and through! Not pentameter, BUT steady six syllables per line.
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