Fundamentals of Poetry
Terms
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- hexameter
- six foot line
- Meter
- pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
- tetrameter
- four foot line
- pentameter
- five foot line
- octometer
- eight foot meter
- Foot
- a unit of meter. A metrical foot can have two or three syllables. A line may have one or more feet.
- heptameter
- seven foot line
- dimeter
- two foot line
- Stressed/Accented Syllable
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- Poetry
- a patterned form of verbal or written expression of ideas in concentrated, imaginative, and rhythmical terms.
- spondaic foot
- stressed/stressed
- iambic foot
- unstressed/stressed
- trimeter
- three foot line
- Unstressed/Unaccented
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- dactylic foot
- stressed/unstressed/unstressed
- monometer
- one foot line
- pyrrhic foot
- unstressed/unstressed
- anapestic foot
- unstressed/unstressed/stressed
- trochaic foot
- stress/unstressed