1. Midterm Poetry Guide

2. Prosody – the science of poetical forms, including quantity and accent of syllables, meter and versification and metrical composition.
Verse – A single metrical (pentameter, hexameter)or rhythmical line made up of a number of feet, arranged according to a specific rule.
Scansion – Act or art of scanning verse to show its metrical parts.
Meter – A measured verbal rhythm.
Accent – A stress (–) of voice on a particular syllable in pronouncing a word; de facto indicates the unaccented ().
Foot – A primary measure of poetic rhythm corresponding to a bar of music.
Iambic – A two-syllable foot of one short or unaccented syllable followed by a long or accented one. ( –)
Trochaic – A two-syllable foot of one long and one short. (– )
Anapestic – A three-syllable foot of two short syllables followed by a long syllable. (  –)
Dactylic – A three-syllable foot of one long syllable followed by two short ones. (–   )
Cretic – A three-syllable foot. (–  –)
Glyconic – A line of verse having three trochees and one dactyl.

3. Poetry: Elements and Terms
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4. Poetry: Elements and Terms
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5. Poetry: Elements and Terms
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6. Poetry: Elements and Terms
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