Types of Meter
If there is one foot, it's called monometer; two feet, dimeter; three is trimeter; four is tetrameter; five is pentameter; six is hexameter, seven is heptameter and eight is octameter. For example, if the feet are iambs, and if there are five feet to a line, then it's called iambic pentameter.If the feet are primarily dactyls and there are six to a line, then it's dactylic hexameter.
Examples:
1. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
2.But our love it was stronger by far than the love.
3. Double, double, toil and trouble.
Scansion Exercise
Accentual-Syllabic Verse Exercise
1.
“Cannon to right of them
Cannon to left of them
Cannon in front of them”
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2.
“Never, never, never, never, never!”
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3.
“When you are old and gray and full of sleep”
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4.
“Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me”
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5.
“O, say can you see by the dawn’s early light."
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6.
"I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety."
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7.
“Bark barkbarkbark
BarkbarkBARKBARK”
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8.
“The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea
When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.”
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9.
“Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.”
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10.
“Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart.”
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11.
“Here you come with your old music, and here’s all the good it brings.
What, they lived once thus at Venice where the merchants were the kings,
Where Saint Mark’s is, where the Doges used to wed the sea with rings.”
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12.
“I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but ’adn’t none for me;”
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