Forman example of monometre

Thus I

Pass by

And die,

As one,

Unknown,

And gone:

I'm made

A shade,

And laid

I'th grave,

There have

My cave.

Where tell

I dwell,

Farewell.

KINDS OF STANZAS

Couplet = a two line stanza

Triplet (Tercet) = a three line stanza

Quatrain = a four line stanza

Quintet = a five line stanza

Sestet (Sextet) = a six line stanza

Septet = a seven line stanza

Octave = an eight line stanza

And now... SOUND EFFECTS

What is RHYTHM?

The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem

Rhythm can be created by metre, rhyme, alliteration and refrain.

METRE

A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Meter occurs when the stressed and unstressed syllables of the words in a poem are arranged in a repeating pattern.

When poets write in metre, they count out the number of stressed (strong) syllables and unstressed (weak) syllables for each line. They they repeat the pattern throughout the poem.

METRE cont.

Kinds of Metrical Lines monometre = one foot on a line dimetre = two feet on a line trimetre = three feet on a line tetrametre = four feet on a line pentametre = five feet on a line Exametre/Alexandrine = six feet on a

line heptametre = seven feet on a line octometer = eight feet on a line

FREE VERSE POETRY

Unlike metered poetry, free verse poetry does NOT have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Does NOT have rhyme.

Free verse poetry is very conversational - sounds like someone talking with you. Robert Frost wrote: “Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down”.

Another modern type of poetry is the figurative poem.

Type + Number = Metre

Types of Poetic Feet• Iambic (1 unstressed + 1 stressed)

• Trochaic (1 stressed + 1 unstressed)

• Anapestic (2 unstressed + 1 stressed)

• Dactylic (1 stressed + 2 unstressed)

• Spondaic (all syllables equal)

Number of feet per line

MonometreDimetreTrimetreTetrametre Pentametre Exametre