Meter Practice

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Meter Practice

• examples taken from
• http//www.english.emory.edu/classes/Handbook/mete
  r.html

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Example 1

• That time of year thou mayst in me behold

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Example 1

• Count the number of syllables
• That time of year thou mayst in me behold
• 10
• Look at the multi-syllable word(s)
• Behold
• Correct Pronunciation?
• ? ? ? ?
• Behold or Behold

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Example 1

• That time of year thou mayst in me behold
• ? ? ? ? ? ?
  ? ? ? ?
• That time of year thou mayst in me behold
• Iambic Pentameter

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Example 2

• Tell me not in mournful numbers

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Example 2

• Tell me not in mournful numbers
• ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
  ?
• Tell me not in mournful numbers
• Trochaic Tetrameter

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Example 3

• And the sound of a voice that is still

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Example 3

• And the sound of a voice that is still
• ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
  ? ?
• And the sound of a voice that is still
• Anapestic Trimeter

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Example 4

• This is the forest primeval, the murmuri
  ng pine and the hemlocks

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Example 4

• ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
• This is the forest primeval, the ? ? ?
  ? ? ? ? ? murmuring pine and
  the hemlocks
• Dactylic Hexameter Catalectic