![]() Did you mark (or scan) the first two lines like this? Mark the syllables as accented or unaccented. Do not pause for line endings, only for punctuation. How many syllables are in each line? Reread the poem silently then read it aloud. ![]() Here are four lines of a poem (of sorts) on which you can practice counting syllables and marking accented and unaccented: So, after you mark the accented and unaccented syllables, you can often see that most of the syllables will group into one type of foot. A two-foot line is called a dimeter three-foot, trimeter four-foot, tetrameter five-foot, pentameter six-foot, hexameter. A one-foot line, however, is called a monometer. Of course, most lines of poetry have more than one foot. Iambic foot x ! trochaic foot ! x spondaic foot ! !Īnapestic foot x x ! dactylic foot ! x x amphibrachic foot x ! x In traditional English poetry, most poetic feet fall into the following categories: Free verse, by contrast, does not have any regular pattern to accented and unaccented syllables, does not have the same number of syllables in its lines, and usually does not have a regular pattern to any rhyme it may (or may not) have. Blank verse poetry (from the French "white or pale verse") also has a pattern of accented and unaccented syllables-in fact, it must have ten syllables per line, but it doesn't rhyme at the end of the lines. This pattern of accented and unaccented syllables is the primary component of metrical analysis. Finally, a traditional poem has a pattern of accented and unaccented syllables. For instance, a traditional poem might have eight syllables in most of its lines. Also, traditional poetry has a pattern to the number of syllables per line. Traditional poetry has some pattern of rhyme at the end of the line-for example, the first line might rhyme with the third line, the second might rhyme with the fourth, etc. There are three broad categories of poetry: traditional, blank verse, and free verse. Of course, if the writer were trying to emphasize that "he" (as opposed to "she" or "I") had run, then he would receive an accent, and "ran" would not be accented because it would be spoken much softer than "he." You determine whether a word or syllable receives an accent by ear and by dictionary: your ear can tell you that "he" in the above example isn't spoken very loudly, and both your ear and your dictionary can tell you which of the syllables in a multisyllabic word are spoken loudly (have accent).Īll poetry except "free verse" takes account of accentual pattern. Furthermore, as the sentence "he ran to the coast demonstrates," "he" has considerably less stress than "ran," so it is considered unaccented. Small prepositions and articles are usually not accented in metrical analysis because they normally receive less stress (voice volume) than the other words. Where the exclamation mark (!) denotes accent and the ex (x) denotes no accent. To show this accentual pattern, we can write "candle" like this: ![]() For instance, the word "candle" has two syllables, the first being accented (or spoken louder than the second) and the second being unaccented (or spoken softer than the first). ![]() ![]() Feet are combinations of accented and unaccented syllables. Generally, this analysis measures (in feet) lines of structured poems. Metrical analysis is the study of the rhythm of poetry. ![]()
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