METER

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METER

• A Few More Things You Should Know

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HYPERCATALECTIC

• Having an extra syllable or syllables in excess
  of the normal length of a specified metrical
  verse line.
• Feminine Ending
• The ending of a metrical verse line on an
  unstressed syllable (as in the regular trochaic
  line)
• Masculine Ending
• The ending of a metrical verse line on a stressed
  syllable (as in the regular iambic line)

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HYPERCATALECTIC

• Taken from Hamlet (I.ii.137)the dominant meter
  of the soliloquy is iambic pentameter
• How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
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• How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
• Iambic Pentameter Hypercatalectic

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HYPERCATALECTIC

• As opposed to
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• How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
• Trochaic Pentameter with Anacrusis

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CAESURA

• A pause in a line of verse, often coinciding with
  a break between clauses or sentences
• In scansion, a caesura is normally indicated by
  the symbol ll
• Sometimes, a caesura will mark a change in the
  type of metric foot within a line

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CAESURA

• To be or not to bethat is the question
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• To be or not to bethat is the question
• Iambic Pentameter Hypercatalectic
• Fourth Foot (immediately after the caesura) is
  trochaic