Measured Lines (metre)🌲 Flashcards
What is Spondee
A stress in a sentence
What is Pyrrhic
No stress in a sentence
Define metre according to Chris B
The pattern of measured units recurring more or less regularly in lines of a verse
Define the four forms of metre (ITAD)
Iambic
Trochaic
Anapaestic
Dactylic
What is one stress called in a sentence
Monometer
What is two stresses called in a sentence
Dimeter
What is three stresses called in a sentence
Trimester
What is four stresses called in a sentence
Tetrameter
What is five stresses called in a sentence
Pentameter
What is six stresses called in a sentence
Hexameter
What is seven stresses called in a sentence
Heptameter
What is eight stresses called in a sentence
Octameter
What is nine stresses called in a sentence
Nonameter