Wednesday, May 11, 2011.

1) Rhythm and meter: Copy on a sheet of paper and scan the verse "Now I lay me..." and count the iambs identifying lines two and four as iambic tetrameter. Metrical Lines per feet in each line:
monometer = one foot per line
dimeter = two feet per line
trimeter = three feet per line
tetrameter = four feet per line
pentameter = five feet per line
hexameter = six feet per line
heptameter = seven feet per line
octometer = eight feet per line

Scan "Hickory, dickory dock..." define as dactylic dimeter.
Scan "Twinkle, twinkle little star..." identify lines as trochaic trimeter.

Complete "Elements of Poetry" and "The Wilderness Tamed" reviewing

stanza: A group of lines that form a unit of poetry

form: How the poem appears on paper: One must determine how many stanzas of how many lines? Some poems are irregular while some may be the form of a diamond, a snake, etc.

rhyme scheme: The recurring end rhyme patterns in a poem: abcb, abba, abab, etc.