1. Introduction to Poetic Meter Peters, 2013

2. What is METER? Any piece of writing (or music) in which there is a regular pattern of beats is said to have ‘meter’ The patterns are made of hard and soft beats Let’s identify some patterns…

3. The pattern ~ / This represents a soft beat This respresents a hard beat Together, the repeat of a combination is called a “foot”

4. Look at the following patterns and count how many feet you can see! 1. ~/~/~/~/~/ 2.~~/~~/~~/ 3./~/~/~/~/~/~ 4./~/~/~/~ 5./~~/~~

5. To name the line, use the following Number of feet Prefix+ meter= OneMonoMonometer TwoDiDimeter ThreeTriTrimeter FourTetraTetrameter FivePentaPentameter SixHexaHexameter SevenHepaHeptameter Eightoctaoctameter

6. Label the following patterns 1.~/ ~/ ~/ ~/ ~/ 2.~~/ ~~/ ~~/ 3./~/~/~/~/~/~ 4./~~ /~~

7. What are the different feet called? PatternNounAdjective ~/Iambiambic ~~/Anapestanapestic /~~DactylDactylic /~TrocheeTrochaic //Spondeespondaic We describe a poetic line, then, by its type and number of poetic feet. For example, 5 iambs = iambic pentameter (ah, Shakespeare!!!)

8. Chaucer wrote in two rhyming lines of iambic pentamter, known as a “heroic couplet” Shakespeare borrowed this form to express love and wickedness ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ / He knew the way to sit a horse and ride ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ / He could make songs and poems and recite