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Meter and Rhythm Flashcards

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1
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Are you still standing there east of the Garden of Eden

A

Dactylic Pentameter (the last foot is a trochee)

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How can you identify whether a monosyllable is stressed or unstressed?

(monosyllables are one-syllable words)

A

Stressed monosyllables often include:
Verbs, adjectives, nouns, adverbs, and interjections

Unstressed monosyllables often include:
Articles, prepositions, auxiliaries, conjunctions, and relative pronouns

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What is the meter and rhythm in: “That time | of year | thou mayst | in me | behold”?

A

iambic pentameter

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4
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What term refers to the overall tempo, or pace, at which the poem unfolds?

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RHYTHM refers to the overall tempo, or pace, at which the poem unfolds

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5
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What refers to the measured beat established by patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables?

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METER refers to the measured beat established by patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables

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6
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What is the meter and the rhythm in this sentence: “I shall but love thee better after death”

A

Iambic pentameter

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7
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What is poum pa pa?

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A dactyl

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8
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What is pa pa poum?

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An anapest

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9
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What is the meter and rhythm in: “Tell me | not in | mournful | numbers”?

A

trochaic tetrameter

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10
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What is the meter and rhythm in: “And the sound | of a voice | that is still”?

A

anapestic trimeter

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11
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What is the meter and rhythm in: “This is the | forest pri | meval, the | murmuring | pine and the | hemlocks”?

A

dactylic hexameter

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12
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How can you identify a dactyl?

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Remember: A pterodactyl swooping down to the ground. (stressed, unstressed, unstressed)

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13
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What is the meter and the rhythm in this sentence: “The safest place on planet earth”

A

Iambic tetrameter

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14
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My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

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Iambic pentameter

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15
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The plowman homeward plods his weary way

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Iambic pentameter

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16
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What is the meter and the rhythm in this sentence: “He knows she will and you can tell”

A

Iambic tetrameter

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17
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How many syllables could an iambic pentameter have?

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Most commonly 10. HOWEVER, could also be 11 because an extra unstressed syllable would still be iambic pentameter.

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18
Q

Identify the meter:

u / u / u / u / u /

A

Iambic Pentameter

19
Q

Identify the meter:

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

A

Iambic Pentameter

20
Q

Identify the meter:

All I could see from where I stood

A

Iambic Tetrameter

21
Q

Identify the meter:

To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

A

Iambic Pentameter

22
Q

What foot is “but of course!”?

A

Anapest (duh-duh-DUH)

23
Q

What foot is “honestly”?

A

Dactyl (DUH-duh-duh)

24
Q

What foot is “collapse”?

A

Iamb (duh-DUH)

25
Q

What foot is “pizza”?

A

Trochee (DUH-duh)

26
Q

What kind of meter has 3 feet?

A

trimeter

27
Q

What kind of meter has 1 foot?

A

Monometer

28
Q

How many feet is an hexameter?

A

6

29
Q

What kind of meter has 2 feet?

A

dimeter

30
Q

How many feet is a tetrameter?

A

4

31
Q

What kind of meter has 5 feet?

A

Pentameter

32
Q

How many feet is a heptameter?

A

7

33
Q

How many feet is an octameter?

A

8

34
Q

In the still of the night

A

Anapestic dimeter

35
Q

What is the meter and rhythm in: “If music be the food of love, play on”

A

iambic pentameter

36
Q

What is the meter and rhythm in: “Bent like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean, | Bent, but not broken, by age was the form of the notary public;”?

A

Dactylic Hexameter (with some trochees in the mix)

37
Q

Identify the meter:

Cannon to right of them

A

Dactylic Dimeter

38
Q

Identify the meter:

We that have loved him so, followed him honoured him

A

Dactylic Tetrameter

39
Q

People twist and scream in pain

A

Trochaic tetrameter (the last foot is only a stressed syllable)

40
Q

Hit the nail on the nail

A

Anapestic dimeter

41
Q

When all at once I saw a crowd

A

Iambic tetrameter

42
Q

Identify the meter: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.”

A

Trochaic Octameter (and there is a caesura in the middle!)

43
Q 
Identify the meter in Robert Herrick's "Upon his departure hence"...
Thus I 
Passe by,
And die:
As One,
Unknown,
And gon:
I’m made 
A shade, 
And laid 
I’th grave,
There have
My Cave.
Where tell 
I dwell, 
Farewell.
A

iambic Monometer.

ALSO don’t forget Robert Herrick also wrote “To the Virgins, to Make much of Time”

44
Q

Identify the meter:

In the midst of the word he was trying to say

A

Anapestic Tetrameter

English 603-103-MQ Section 60315 (5 decks)

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