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Poetry Rhyme and Meter Overview

[Music] Welcome to English 8 quarter 1 revised K to2 curriculum. Rhyme and meter. Rhyme is the repetition of syllables typically at the end of a verse line. Example, I think I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. The words at the end of the first line is the word C. While on the second line, the word is tree. The words C and tree rhyme. Meter. Meter is the beat or rhythm of a line in a poem. It's made by the number of syllables and which ones we stress. Say louder or stronger. Example, I do not like green eggs and ham. It has eight syllables. I do not like green eggs and ham. Let us now break down syllables with stress. Small letters unstressed. Big letters stressed. Examples. I do not like green eggs and ham. I will not eat them with a fox. She said they smell like fish and glue. The pattern is unstressed stressed. This is calledamic meter. One of the most common meters in English poetry. Examples. I do not like green eggs and ham. I will not eat them with a fox. She said they smell like fish and glue. One stressed and the other stressed syllable. In poetry, feet are small groups of syllables that help give poems their rhythm or beat. Each foot has a pattern of stressed, a louder, and unstressed, softer syllables. We have four common types of feet in poetic meter. The first one is I am troy dactyl and anipest. I am unstressed followed by stressed syllable soft then strong. Think of the sound the doom. The pattern is unstressed then stressed. Examples of single word ayam. One word, two syllables, unstressed and stressed. Aside, belong, return, delay, defend, involve, forget, enjoy. Unstressed followed by stressed syllable. Examples of two-word ayam. Two words, two syllables, unstressed and stressed. The dog we ran a song in time. They played to win. The next one is troy is stressed followed by unstressed syllable. strong then soft. Think of the sound doom. It starts with strong strong part and then falling rhythm. Examples two syllables stressed and unstressed. Table. Apple. Happy. Never. Window. Paper. Tiger. Doctor. The third one is dactyl stressed followed by two unstressed syllables. One strong then two soft. Think of the sound du da dum. A ductal is a metrical foot with this pattern stressed. Unstressed unstressed. Examples: elephant, memory, wonderful, beautiful, suddenly camera. The last one is the anipest. Two unstressed followed by one accented or one stressed syllable. Two soft then one strong. Think of the sound doom. An anapest is a metrical foot with this pattern. Unstressed, unstressed, stressed, da the doom, in the dark, on the hill, with a smile, in a flash. Meter is how many feet or rhythmic units are in one line of poetry. Think of a foot as a beat or a step in the poem. Types of meter we have monometer 1 ft per line. Example I hope. Diameter 2 feet per line. I hope you do. Tryer 3 feet per line. I hope you do as well. Tetrometer 4 feet per line. I hope you do as well today. Pentameter 5T per line. I hope you do as well today at school. Hexameter 6 feet per line. I hope you do as well today at school, my friend. For heer and octometer, they have 7 ft per line and 8 ft per line. That's it for today's discussion about rhyme and meter. Thank you for watching.