2. Poetry vocab Take notes!

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4. Each poem is broken into… Stanzas Lines Feet A foot is the repeated chunk of syllables The way a waltz requires three beats over and over. Those three beats would be the foot.

5. Foot labels: see board for marks Iamb=2 beats, “Iambic foot” The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love Trochaic, trochee=2 beats, Double, double, toil and trouble Fire burn and cauldron bubble Anapest, anapestic=3 beats I am monarch of all I survey Dactylic, dactyl=3 beats Take her up tenderly

6. Once you identify the foot: Count how many feet per line. Your choices are: Monometer=once Dimeter-twice Trimeter-3x Tetrameter=4x Pentameter=5x Hexameter=6x Heptameter=7x Octameter=8x

7. SOMETIMES Poets mix up their rhythm, or throw in a spondee (2 beats) or monosyllabic (1 beat) foot for effect.

8. Add these words to your vocab list SPONDEE, SPONDAIC Means two equally stressed syllables Monosyllabic foot One syllable line, common in modern poetry

9. Blank verse= Unrhymed iambic pentameter. How many beats per line in blank verse? If this does not make sense to you, listen to the sound…

10. Dactylic hexameter How many beats per line? Can’t figure it out???? Listen…

11. Anapestic dimeter How many beats per line?

12. Spondaic tetrameter How many beats?

13. What is it? Ye say they all have passed away That noble race and brave That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave Don’t know? Listen….