Rhythm. Closed-form- Lines of poetry contain specific number of syllables measured by heavy stress (prime) or light stress (breve) Units of light and.

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Rhythm

Closed-form- Lines of poetry contain specific number of syllables measured by heavy stress (prime) or light stress (breve) Units of light and heavy stresses = feet

Feet- Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables The basic unit of meter is a foot. Most common feet in English poetry: Iamb  / Trochee/  Anapest   / Dactyl/   Spondee/ /

Analysis of poetic rhythm = prosody Repetition of feet in a line of poetry Monometer = one foot Dimeter = two feet Trimeter = three feet Tetrameter = four feet Pentameter = five feet *Turn to page 836.

Blank verse = five unrhymed iambic lines (iambic pentameter) Couplet = two rhyming lines identical in length and meter Tercet = three-line stanza, often all rhyming Quatrain = four-line stanza, most common

Sonnet = fourteen-line poem Italian (Petrarchan) = one octave, one sestet, usually abba,abba,cdc,cdc English (Shakespearean) = three quatrains, one couplet, sometimes abab,cdcd,efef,gg Villanelle = nineteen-line poem containing six tercets, rhymed aba, concluded by four lines – most difficult to write *Turn to page 859.

Does not rhyme, and does not have consistent meter Also called free verse Relies on content, assonance, alliteration, visual images Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were early open- form poets