Exploring Meter in Poetry

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Meter

The rhythmic structure of a poem.

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Free Verse

Poetry without a fixed meter or rhyme scheme.

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Metrical Poetry

Poetry that follows a specific rhythmic pattern.

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Foot

A basic unit of measurement in poetry's meter.

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Iambic

A metrical foot with an unstressed followed by stressed syllable.

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Trochee

A metrical foot with a stressed followed by unstressed syllable.

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Anapest

A metrical foot with two unstressed followed by a stressed syllable.

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Dactyl

A metrical foot with a stressed followed by two unstressed syllables.

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Spondee

A metrical foot with two stressed syllables.

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Substitution

Replacing a foot in a metrical pattern with another.

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Breaking of the meter

Disruption of the established rhythmic pattern.