Poetry Chapter Eight
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purplespectacls on October 27, 2008
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 rhythm | The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds. |
| stress | Places more emphasis on one syllable than another. |
| meter | Recurring pattern of stresses. Makes up poems prosody. |
| prosody | Overall metrical structure of a poem. |
| scansion | Measuring the stresses in a line to determine its metrical pattern. |
| foot | Metric unit by which a line of poetry is measured. |
| iamb | Unstressed | Stressed. |
| trochee | Stressed | Unstressed. |
| anapset | Unstressed | Unstressed | Stressed. |
| dactyl | Stressed | Unstressed | Unstressed |
| spondee | Stressed | Stressed |
| iambic pentameter | Iambic rhythm of five feet. |
| blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
| masculine ending | A line that ends with a stressed syllable. |
| feminine ending | A line ending with an unstressed syllable. |
| caesura | Pause within a line. |
| end-stopped line | A line that ends with a pause. |
| run-on line | A line that ends without a pause and continues onto the next line. |
| enjambment | Run over from one line to another. |
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