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What is the metre of a poem?

The pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables within verses.

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How are different metres written?

The term is split into two parts, its metrical foot and the number of feet. For example, iambic pentameter utilises 5 (pent) iambs.

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What are the six basic metrical feet? (U = unstressed X = stressed)

Iambs- UX rising rhythm

Trochees- XU falling rhythm

Pyrhhuses- UU

Spondees- XX

Anapests- UUX

Dactyls- XUU

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Why is iambic pentameter the most common metre?

It mimics average english speech patterns

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Give an example of how metre can be analysed using the witches from Macbeth

They are the only characters to speak in trochaic tetrameter. Their faster speech patterns with a metrical foot that is basically an inverted iamb (how all other characters bar the porter speak) makes them seem sinister and supernatural.

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