Poetry Praxis 5047 Review
Anapestic Meter - answer Meter used in whimsical poetry especially LYMRIC- is
composed of feet that are short-short-long or unaccented-unaccented-accented
Blank Verse - answer Unrhymed verse commonly found in Iambic Pantameter
Caesura - answerA break in the rythem of language or a natrual pause in a line of verse
Couplet - answerA stanza made up of 2 rhyming lines
Dactyl - answerA metrical foot of 3 syllables where the first syllable is stressed and the
next two are unstressed. Walt Witment uses this style in "Out the Cradles Endlessly
Walking.
End Rhyme - answerRhyme that occurs at the end of a verse
Enjambment - answera "run on" line of poetry- where one line continues onto the next to
get the full meaning. Thoreau uses it in:
"My life has been the poem I would have writ"
"but I could not both writ and utter it"
Foot - answerOne stressed syllable and the number of unstressed syllables that follow it
(from 0-4)
Iambic (unstressed, stressed)
Trochaic (stressed, unstressed)
Anapestic (un,un, Stressed)
Dactylic (Stressed, un, un)
Line Lengths in Poetry : One Foot-Eight Feet - answerMonometer, Dimeter,Trimeter,
Tetrameter, Pentameter Hexameter, Heptameter, Octameter
Free Verse - answerVerse that contains an irregular pattern and line length: AKA Libre
Heroic Couplet - answerA pair of rhyming lines of poetic verse written in iambic
pentameter
Internal Rhyme - answerrhyme that occurs with in one line of verse (not at the end of
the line) Think The Raven
Meter - answerA rythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed
syllables
Anapestic Meter - answer Meter used in whimsical poetry especially LYMRIC- is
composed of feet that are short-short-long or unaccented-unaccented-accented
Blank Verse - answer Unrhymed verse commonly found in Iambic Pantameter
Caesura - answerA break in the rythem of language or a natrual pause in a line of verse
Couplet - answerA stanza made up of 2 rhyming lines
Dactyl - answerA metrical foot of 3 syllables where the first syllable is stressed and the
next two are unstressed. Walt Witment uses this style in "Out the Cradles Endlessly
Walking.
End Rhyme - answerRhyme that occurs at the end of a verse
Enjambment - answera "run on" line of poetry- where one line continues onto the next to
get the full meaning. Thoreau uses it in:
"My life has been the poem I would have writ"
"but I could not both writ and utter it"
Foot - answerOne stressed syllable and the number of unstressed syllables that follow it
(from 0-4)
Iambic (unstressed, stressed)
Trochaic (stressed, unstressed)
Anapestic (un,un, Stressed)
Dactylic (Stressed, un, un)
Line Lengths in Poetry : One Foot-Eight Feet - answerMonometer, Dimeter,Trimeter,
Tetrameter, Pentameter Hexameter, Heptameter, Octameter
Free Verse - answerVerse that contains an irregular pattern and line length: AKA Libre
Heroic Couplet - answerA pair of rhyming lines of poetic verse written in iambic
pentameter
Internal Rhyme - answerrhyme that occurs with in one line of verse (not at the end of
the line) Think The Raven
Meter - answerA rythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed
syllables
