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Lesson 2 - More MeterQUOTE OF THE DAYLesson 2 - More Meter
“A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweler, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.” - Horace Walpole
While every metrical poem will have a base meter to serve as its backbone, many poets often find that writing in ten-syllable iambic sentences, for example, is too limiting for their purposes, either because pure meter doesn’t provide enough variation for proper emphasis or because it quickly gets dull and tedious, or a combin
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Handout 1 - More on ScansionMore on ScansionHandout 1 - More on Scansion
If scanning a line of verse is difficult for you, do not fret. As the cliché goes, practice makes perfect. In this lesson, I’ll go over some of the tricks of scansion and offer some ways to more easily identify a line’s meter.
Take this opening line of one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, titled either “Sonnet 18” or by the first line:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Your first task should be to identify polysyllabic words that can only be pronounced in one way. “Compare” and “summer’s” are two such words, an iamb and a trochee,
by ~Professor-Flare
Lesson 1 - Basics of MeterQUOTE OF THE DAYLesson 1 - Basics of Meter
“Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation. Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.” - Robert Frost
As Robert Frost is saying, meter and rhyme are not the most important parts of writing. They are the most intricate when creating poetry, but poems can be written without them. I began my poetry with free verse, and gradually became more and more fi
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i'm sorry?
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x.x
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