Understanding Poetry: Meter

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Understanding PoetryMeter

• Patricia Dreher
• 8th Grade

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After today, you will

• Recognize poetic meter
• Know the following types
• Iambic
• Trochaic

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Recognizing Meter

• The beat of a poem
• Similar to music
• Listen for accents
• Listen for accents
• Listen for patterns

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Iambic

• Iambic Unaccented, accented
• X/X/X/X/
• Ex The frost performs its secret ministry,
• Unhelped by any wind
• From S.T. Coleridges Frost at Midnight

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Trochaic

• Trochaic Accented, unaccented
• /X/X/X/X
• Ex Once upon a midnight dreary,
• As I pondered, weak and weary
• From Edgar Allen Poes The Raven

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Review

• Poetic Meter
• The beat
• Beat affects mood
• Different types
• Iambic (X/X/X/)
• Trochaic (/X/X/X)