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Introduction to Poetic Meter Peters, 2013 What is METER? • Any piece of writing (or music) in which there is a regular pattern of beats is said to have ‘meter’ • The patterns are made of hard and soft beats • Let’s identify some patterns… The pattern ~ / This represents a soft beat Together, the repeat of a combination is called a “foot” This respresents a hard beat Look at the following patterns and count how many feet you can see! 1. ~/~/~/~/~/ 2.~~/~~/~~/ 3./~/~/~/~/~/~ 4./~/~/~/~ 5./~~/~~ To name the line, use the following Number of feet Prefix + meter= One Mono Monometer Two Di Dimeter Three Tri Trimeter Four Tetra Tetrameter Five Penta Pentameter Six Hex a Hexameter Seven Hep a Heptameter Eight oct a octameter Label the following patterns 1. 2. 3. 4. ~/ ~/ ~/ ~/ ~/ ~~/ ~~/ ~~/ /~/~/~/~/~/~ /~~ /~~ What are the different feet called? Pattern Noun Adjective ~/ Iamb iambic ~~/ Anapest anapestic /~~ Dactyl Dactylic /~ Trochee Trochaic // Spondee spondaic We describe a poetic line, then, by its type and number of poetic feet. For example, 5 iambs = iambic pentameter (ah, Shakespeare!!!) Chaucer wrote in two rhyming lines of iambic pentamter, known as a “heroic couplet” Shakespeare borrowed this form to express love and wickedness ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ / He knew the way to sit a horse and ride ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ / He could make songs and poems and recite