Tuesday, April 10, 2018

35-75 Reading Notes

• turning the line
• each line of a poem can be broken down into feet and into stresses to reveal the pattern
• scansion
• iambic foot
• five iambic feet create an iambic pentameter
• most widely used line in English metrical verse
• tetrameter(4 foot)
• shorter ones makes reader pay more attention
• free form poems
• constancy
• Variation
• Wakes up the reader
• Dactyl
• Anapest
• Caesura
• The beginning of the line and the end of the line
• End most important
• Beginning second most important
• True rhyme
• Turning the line
• Conclusion
• Poems require a design
• Length, breath, rhyme
• The Stanza
• Syllabic Verse
• Free Verse
• Tone and Content

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