Chapter 12:
Rhythm and Meter
(Flow) rhythm- any wavelike
recurrence of motion or sound
Accented/stressed- given more
prominence in pronunciation than the rest
Rhetorical stresses (in speech) -
stressing words you want to emphasize
End-stopped line- end of line
corresponds with natural speech pause
Run-on line- line moves on
without pause into next line
Caesuras- pauses within line
Free verse- poetic line is basic
rhythmic unit
Prose poem- depends entirely on
ordinary prose rhythms
(Pattern) meter- identifying characteristic
of rhythmic language we can tap our feet to
Foot- unit of meter; 1 accented
syllable and 1 or 2 unaccented syllables
Kinds of feet:
1.
u/
u/ Iamb/Iambic
2.
/u
/u Trochee/Trochaic
3.
uu/
uu/ Anapest/Anapestic
4.
/uu
/uu Dactyl/ Dactylic
5.
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Spondee/Spondaic
Metrical lines measured by naming
number of feet in them ex. Monometer = 1 foot
Metrical variations:
1.
Substitution
(replace one foot with another)
2.
Extrametrical
syllables (additions to beginning/end of lines)
3.
Truncation
(omission of unaccented syllable at either end of line)
Scansion-process of defining
metrical form of poem
1.
Identify
prevailing foot
2.
Name
number of feet in line
3.
Describe
stanzaic pattern (if any)
Expected rhythm- meter we expect
to hear
Heard rhythm- actual rhythm of
words
Grammatical and rhetorical
pauses- contribute to variations
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