The meters are: iambs, trochees, dactyls, anapests, and spondees. So you could ask of any line in a verse, what meter are you? Are you an iamb? Or a trochee? Meter Table Feet The combination of meter and feet can identify a poem or a poet. Metrical patterns Some common metrical patterns, with notable examples of poets and poems who use them, include: Iamb ic penta meter iamb repeated 5 times, or 5 feet John Milton in Paradise Lost , William Shakespeare in his sonnets Dac tylic hexa meter dactyl repeated 6 times or 6 feet Homer, Iliad ; Virgil, Aeneid Iam bic tetra meter iamb repeated 3 times Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress ; Aleksandr Pushkin, Eugene Onegin , Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Tro chaic octa meter trochee repeated 8 times Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Forced meter Other than in free verse, where no rhyming scheme or meter apply, when a poet tries to force a rhyming scheme on a poem, or a lyricist tries too hard to make meter work, the problem is that they alter the normal pattern of emphases in a word or phrase, and a mother tongue speaker of the language immediately notice it, and it makes the language uncomfortable.
Example of good irregular meter Wallace Stevens For example, in Anecdote of the Jar , by Wallace Stevens, he uses broken or irregular meter ion purpose, and it is done wonderfully well. West Vir- gin- ia, moun-tain mam -ma, Take me home , coun-try roads.
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Peskin, J. Constructing meaning when reading poetry: an expert-novice study. Port, R. Meter and speech. First check the syllables two at a time; then if no pattern is evident, three at a time. This second line is more difficult, partly because of the three lightly stressed syllables ".
And knowing that meter helps us fit the doubtful syllables into the established pattern, in this case iambic pentameter. This short discussion just gives the barest essentials.
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