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Syllabic – syllable count There is the old pond!  \ne.g. ‘haiku’ (17 syllables; Lo, into it jumps a frog:  \nin 3 lines of 5, 7 , 5 syllables) hark, water ’s music!  \n– Bashō’s “The Old Pond”  \n2 . Accentual – strong-stress count Ding dong belle.g. nursery rhymes Pussy’s at the well  \n3 . Accentual-syllabic Was this | the face | that launch’d | a thou|sand ships?  \n– stress-syllable count – 5 pairs of unstressed-stressed syllables e.g. ‘iambic pentameter ’ – 10 syllables  \n Meter: in poetry  \nFrench poetry: ‘syllabic’  \n‘Syllable meter’: the number of syllables within a line of verse, regardless of the fall of the stresses  \nGermanic languages: ‘accentual’  \n‘Strong-stress meter’: the number of stressed syllables within a line of verse, regardless of the number of intervening unstressed syllables  \nEnglish poetry: (predominant) ‘accentual-syllabic ’  \n‘Stress-and-syllable meter’: the recurrent pattern of stress on therecurrent number of syllables  \nMeasure or Foot  \nthe regular combination of stressed syllables and unstressed syllables  \nDisyllabic measures or feet  \n1 . Iambic – an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one  \n– ○ ●  \n– pre-fer  \n2 . Trochaic – a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one  \n– ● ○  \n– pa-per  \n Trisyllabic measures or feet  \n1 . Dactylic – a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones  \n– ● ○ ○  \n– ra-ri-ty  \n2 . Anapestic – two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable  \n– ○ ○ ●  \n– re-par-tee  \n3 . Amphibrachic – a stressed syllable flanked by two unstressed ones  \n– ○ ● ○  \n– to-mor-row  \nPutting them all together  \n1 . Iambic – ○ ●  \n2 . Trochaic – ● ○  \n3 . Dactylic – ● ○ ○  \n4 . Anapestic – ○ ○ ●  \n5. Amphibrachic – ○ ● ○  \nOther meters  \n1 . Amphimacer – an unstressed syllable flanked by two stressed ones  \n– ● ○ ●  \n– day and night  \n2 . Choriamb – two unstressed syllables enclosed by two stressed ones  \n– ● ○ ○ ●  \n– tir-ed of life  \nVariants  \n1 . Spondaic (noun: spondee)  \n2 . Pyrrhic (noun: pyrrhic)  \n– two successive stressed syllables – ● ●  \n– three men  \n– two successive unstressed syllables  \n– ○ ○  \n– with the","cbCaikuZpXcsYbDk","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikuZpXcsYbDk","pdf",1227163,33,"English","# Prosody\n## Meter\n## Measure or Foot\n## Other Meters\n## Variants","[{\"question\":\"What does prosody study in poetry?\",\"answer\":\"Prosody studies the laws governing the structure of poetic lines, often described as the “grammar of verse.”\"},{\"question\":\"How is meter defined?\",\"answer\":\"Meter is the rhythmic sound pattern formed by the sequence of syllables in a poem’s lines.\"},{\"question\":\"What are common types of feet in English verse?\",\"answer\":\"Common disyllabic feet include iambic (unstressed then stressed) and trochaic (stressed then unstressed), while trisyllabic feet include dactylic, anapestic, and amphibrachic patterns.\"}]","Prosody - Meter - Structure of Poetic Lines | PDF",1789945331,51]