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Giving Words

Words and Verse

-Rythmic and Meterical Tools-

These definitions apply to the number of beats or syllables in a line or word and the way in which we stress certain sounds when we speak.

Accent: A regular recurring stress in a line of poetry.

Anapest: A foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.

Cadence: A recurring rhythmical unit that does not have a strict meter.

Caesura: A natual pause in a line of poetry.

Daetyl: A foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.

Ellision: A deliberate omission of a foot or syllablle to make a line conform to a certain meter.

Foot: A rhythmic unit in a line of poetry usually consisting of two or three syllables.

Lamb: A foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one. This is the most common type of foot in poety.

Iambie Pentameter: A meter in which each line consists of five feet eah of which has an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one. This the most common meter in poetry.

Meter: A way of describing rhythm by finding patterns of stresses in words. The meter also measures the rhythm.

Spondee: A foot with two stressed syllables.

Stress: Emphases on a particular syllable of a word.

Trochee: A foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

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