rhythm
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Introduces concepts of meter and scansionTRANSCRIPT
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Rhythm
Meter and Scansion of Poetry
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Types of Feet
• Iambic
• Trochaic
• Anapestic
• Dactylic
• Whose woods/ these are/ I think/ I know
• Tyger,/ Tyger,/ burning/ bright
• Anniver/sary Waltz
• Dracula,/ count of the/ darkness
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Types of lines
• Monometer one foot• Dimeter two feet• Trimeter three feet• Tetrameter four feet• Pentameter five feet• Hexameter six feet• Octameter eight feet
• Trimeter, tetrameter and pentameter are the most common.
• Tetrameter can also be called quadrameter
• Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Let’s try Scanning
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for eastertide.
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Scanning
Loveliest/ of trees, /the cher/ry now
Is hung/with bloom/along/the bough
And stands/about/the wood/land ride
Wearing/white for/easter/tide.
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Scanning
Loveliest/ of trees, /the cher/ry now
Is hung/with bloom/along/the bough
And stands/about/the wood/land ride
Wearing/white for/easter/tide.
1 Dactyl, iamb, iamb, iamb 2 four iambs
3 four iambs 4 three trochees and an extra stress
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Scanning
Loveliest/ of trees, /the cher/ry now
Is hung/with bloom/along/the bough
And stands/about/the wood/land ride
Wearing/white for/easter/tide.
Iambic tetrameter
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Scan the next stanza
Now of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score
It only leaves me fifty more
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Describe the rhythm
Now of/ my three/score years/and ten,
Twenty/will not/ come a/gain,
And take/from sev/enty springs/a score
It on/ly leaves/me fif/ty more
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Describe the rhythm
Now of/ my three/score years/and ten,
Twenty/will not/ come a/gain,
And take/from sev/enty springs/a score
It on/ly leaves/me fif/ty more
1 iambic tetrameter 2 trochaic tetrameter with stress only on last foot 3 iambic tetrameter with 3rd foot anapestic 4 iambic tetrameter.
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You can feel changes in rhythm• Although getting good at scanning takes
a lot of practice and comes to very few people easily, you can easily hear changes in rhythm.
• Compare the two versions of various poems on the next few screens. I’ll bet you can tell when the rhythm has been ruined.
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Which one is the original
She dwelt among untrodden ways
Beside the blue waters of Dove.
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love.
She dwelt among untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove.
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love.
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Answer
• The one on the right.
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Which one is the original?
Nature’s first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her most difficult hue to keep hold of.
Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.
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Answer
• The one on the left.
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Which one is the original?
Tyger, Tyger burning bright.
In the forests of the night
Tyger, Tyger burning bright
In the woods of the night
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Answer
• The one on the left.
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Which one is the original?
Knives can harm you, heaven forbid;
Axes may disarm you, kid;
Guillotines really hurt, but
There’s nothing like a paper cut!
Knives can harm you, heaven forbid;
Axes may disarm you, kid;
Guillotines are painful, but
There’s nothing like a paper cut!
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Answer
• The one on the right.
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Which one is the original?
I cannot dance upon my toes
No teacher instructed me.
But often, in my imagination
A Glee possesses me.
I cannot dance upon my toes
No man instructed me
But oftentimes, among my mind
A Glee possesses me.
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Answer
• The one on the right.