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Sensations of Syllables
Understanding meter and analyzing images
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Rhythm in Music
• What songs did you bring in that is, “about a person becoming who he or she wants to be”?
• What type of music do you listen to?
• How is it different than the music your parents listen to?
• Tap out the rhythm of your favorite song
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KEY VOCABULARY
• Feet/ foot: a foot is one unit of measurement • /car/ = one foot /boyfriend/ = two feet• Meter: pattern of stressed and unstressed
syllables that sets the rhythm for the poem• Rhythm: pattern of sound created by the
arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
• Free verse: poetry which does not have a regular meter
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Beat = Rhythm = Measurement
• In music the rhythm is based on the time signature, how long each measure is – 4/4 3/4 6/8
• In poetry rhythm is based on how long each line is
• Line length is measured by syllables
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Two syllable meters
• The meters with two-syllable feet are
• IAMBIC (x /) : That time of year thou mayst in me behold
• TROCHAIC (/ x): Tell me not in mournful numbers
• SPONDAIC (/ /): Break, break, break/ On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
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Three syllable meters
• Meters with three-syllable feet are
• ANAPESTIC (x x /): And the sound of a voice that is still
• DACTYLIC (/ x x): This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlock (a trochee replaces the final dactyl)
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Metrical Names
• A line of one foot is a monometer (1),
• 2 feet is a dimeter, • 3 feet trimeter • 4 feet tetrameter (4), • 5 feet pentameter (5),
• 6 feet hexameter (6), • 7 feet heptameter (7),• 8 feet octameter (8).
•The number of syllables in a line varies according to the meter
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Name that meter!
• Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward,All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred."Forward, the Light Brigade!"Charge for the guns!" he said:Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
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Do all poems have to have meter?
• No! Think of “When I Was a Young Tomboy” • This is an example of a free verse poem• We like those too!
• Why does all of this matter?• Look at the TPCASTT handout. You will be
doing one of these for every two poems you read.
• The structure of the poem adds to its readability and message