feet. MODIFICATIONS OF METRE Changes in the metrical pattern may be unintentional and deliberate. deliberate There are classes of words (articles, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, link verbs) that are normally unstressed. 1. Unstressed syllables may result in a pyrrhic foot (containing 2 unstressed syllables). Pyrrhics are very typical and natural modifications in English poetry. They are common substitutes of an iambic or a trochaic foot. 2. Another kind of modification involves a spondee (a foot of 2 stressed syllables). The poet uses spondees deliberately for the purpose of strong emphasis or solemnity. Spondees slow down the pace of the rhythm and make it jerky. 3. The third modification of metre is rhythmic inversion
Phonetic. expr. means Synonymic repetition Trochee Prosody Lexical repetition Anapaest Orchestration Syntactic SD Dactyl Euphony Ellipsis Amphibrach Phonetic SD Aposiopesis Spondee Onomatopoeia Nominative sent. Pyrrhic Alliteration Asyndeton Rhythmic invers. Assonance Apokoinu Run-on line Rhyme: Gap-sentence link Stanza: Full Framing Heroic couplet Incomplete Anadiplosis Ballad stanza
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 Modifications of metrical patterns: · Pyrrhic foot--2 unstressed syllables (natural, no emphasis) · Spondee--2 stressed syllables (used deliberately, to add emphasis) · Rhythmic inversion--inverting the order of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line in the iambic or trochaic pattern. It serves as a means of rendering strong emotions. · Hypermetric line (very last line!)--occurs when there is an extra or overflowing syllable. Stress is missing.
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