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How To Write In Meter 101
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-What is meter?
-10 Reasons to write in meter
-Kinds of meter (Accentual, Syllabic, Parellelist, Quantitative, Accentual-Syllabic)
-Kinds of feet (Iamb, Trochee, Anapest, Amphibrach, Dactyl)
-“Junk” by Richard Wilbur
-“Considering the Snail” by Thom Gunn
-KJV Psalm 23
-Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare
-“The Tyger” by William Blake
-“The Destruction of Sennacherib” by Lord Byron
-“O Where Are You Going?” by W.H. Auden
-Evangeline, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“To An Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman
-Speech stress vs. Relative stress (accent)
-The importance of “framing” in scansion
-Rhythmic modulation
-Common substitutions (feminine endings, reversed feet, acephalous lines)
-“All the Fun’s In How You Say A Thing” by Timothy Steele
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List of the most common metrical feet:
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)