English 2230F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Iambic Tetrameter, Narrative Poetry, Free Verse

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2230F/G
• Professor: Allan Pero

Document Summary

Prosody the study of meter and form in poetry. The rules change depend on the kind of poem we are reading. Adams: meter is the abstract model of poeic measure. : it is how we measure low (the syllables in a line of poetry) Syllable: a taking together eg. the word poem" has 2 syllables. Pure accentual meter couning the accents in a line. Pure syllabic meter couning the syllables in a line. Accentual syllabic meter couning the number of syllables and accents in a line: rhythm is determined by the interplay between syllables and accents. Quanitaive meter (we won"t look at this) Free verse anything goes , but even free verse has arrangement efects. Two syllable foot (dimeter): *iambic unstressed/stressed syllable (most common, *trochaic stressed/unstressed eg. double, double, toil and trouble". Three syllable foot (trimeter): *anapesic unstressed/unstressed/stressed, dactylic stressed/unstressed/unstressed. More rare: spondaic stressed/stressed, pyrrhic unstressed/unstressed. Meter should be thought of as ime passing in the background.