English metre us nothing more than rhythmic parallelism: a patterning of the succession of stressed and unstressed syllables with greater regularity than is necessary for spoken English in general. Prosody is the science of versification that studies the laws of metre. Foot is a combination of one stressed and one or two unstressed syllables. The number of syllables to a foot may be either 2 or 3 and one of them must be stressed. Monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, octameter (a line of ... feet) 5 major kinds of feet in English poetry: · Iambus (iambic)--1 unstressed and one stressed syllable ( ) · Trochee (trochaic)--1 stressed and one unstressed syllable ( ) · Dactyl (dactylic)--1 stressed, 2 unstressed ( ) · Amphibrach (amphibrachic)--1 unstressed, 1 stressed, 1 unstressed ( ) · Anapaest (anapaestic)--unstressed, unstressed, stressed ( ) not common
Frame r. Climax Monometer Lexical SD Anticlimax Dimeter Metaphor: Suspense Trimeter Trite Rhetorical q. Pentameter Genuine Exclamation Hexameter Sustained Graphical Means, SD Heptameter Metonymy Under / overstopping Octometer Synecdoche Indented line Antonomasia Graphon Phrasing Irony Common Lit. Voc. Syntagm Epithet: Special Lit. Voc. Monotonous rhythm Syntactic Terms Jerky rhythm
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