ENGL 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Iambic Tetrameter, Lyric Poetry, Freeverse Inc.
28 Mar 2018
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Ode: a long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and elaborate in stanza structure. Declares high passion in a dignified style [freest form of verse before free-verse]. Middle length metrical poem, elaborate stanzaic structure: pindaric [regular] ode: imitating pindar"s form, strophes and antistrophes written in one stanza pattern, all the epodes in another. Freedom to alter structure of stanza in accordance with mood. Middle length poem expressing high passion in dignified style: encomaistic: written in paise to florify someone, horatian ode: originally modeled on the matter, tone and form of od, calm, meditative. Usually homostrophic (written in a single repeated stanza form, shorter than pindaric). Invention of stanza of meter and rhyme, is repeated throughout the poem. Meter: iambic pentameter, then iambic tetrameter, iambic dimeter, iambic tetrameter, iambic pe(cid:374)ta(cid:373)eter, ia(cid:373)(cid:271)i(cid:272) pe(cid:374)ta(cid:373)eter (cid:374)o patter(cid:374) that repeats, although it is still (cid:373)etri(cid:272)al.
