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Slide1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWnvqqHlSy4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2QnG3DwVW0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3IV22FJIbcSlide2

Metre

Rhythmic beat of poetrySlide3

Mnemonic

Iambus comes with steady pace,

Swift the Trochee takes its place,

Following Dactyl on pattering feet,

The Amphibrach next with its stressed middle beat,

But the last in the line and not least is the rare Anapest. Slide4

Iambic

Metre

Most simple and most commonly occurring

metre

.

Unstressed + Stressed

I- am- bus comes with

stea

-

dy

paceSlide5

Lord Byron- “She Walks In Beauty Like the Night”

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that’s best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes:

Thus mellowed to that tender light

Which heaven to gaudy day denies.Slide6

Trochaic

Metre

Reverse of Iamb.

Stressed + Unstressed

Swift the

tro

-

chee

takes its placeSlide7

Shakespeare-

Macbeth (4.1)

Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.Slide8

Dactylic

Metre

Often used to add pace to a poem.

Likely to have polysyllabic words.

Stressed + Unstressed + Unstressed.

Foll

-

ow

-

ing

Dac

-

tyl

on

patt

-

er

ing

feetSlide9

Robert Browning- “The Lost Leader”

Just for a handful of silver he left us

Just for a

riband

to stick in his coatSlide10

Amphibrachic

Metre

Less used than above three.

Unstressed + Stressed + Unstressed

The Am- phi-

brach

next with its stressed mid- -

dle

beatSlide11

Dr. Seuss-

If I Ran The Circus

All ready to put up the tents for my circus

I think I will call it the Circus

McGurkus

And NOW comes an act of Enormous

Enrormance

!

Now former performers performed this performance! Slide12

Anapaestic

Metre

Rising tri-syllabic

metre

.

Unstressed + Unstressed + Stressed

And the last in the line but not least is the rare An- a-

paestSlide13

Clement Clark Moore- “A Visit from St. Nicholas”

Twas

the night before Christmas and all through the house,

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Slide14

Pyrrhic and Spondee

Often used together

Pyrrhic- Unstressed + Unstressed

Spondee- Stressed + Stressed Slide15

Tennyson-

Ulysses

This

is my

son

, my

own

Te

le

ma

chus

To

whom

I

leave

the

scep

tre

and the

isle

,

Well-loved

of

me

, dis

cern

ing to ful

fill

This

la

bour

, by

slow pru

dence to

make mild

A

rug

ged

pe

ople, and through

soft

de

grees

Sub

due

them to the

use

ful and the

good.Slide16

Hiawatha

Through the tranquil air of morning,

First a single line of darkness,

Then a denser, bluer vapor,

Then a snow-white cloud unfolding,

Like the tree-tops of the forest,

Ever rising, rising, rising,

Till it touched the top of

heaven,

Till it broke against the heaven

And

rolled outward all around it.