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Critical Appreciation
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Hi,
while the diagram above must be important for a candidate intending to give English electives, it is also a very good and brief way for people who are not students of English to understand the logical steps involved in interpreting a piece of writing by an author and what to look for while dissecting it. Could you please elaborate on the meter of the poem and the feet to a poem. Just in brief kindly
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METER AND FEET IN ENGLISH POETRY English poetry employs five basic rhythms of varying stressed (/) and unstressed (x) syllables. The most common meters are: (Stressed syllables are marked in blue and unstressed are in red font color rather than the traditional "/" and "x.") Iambic A foot which starts with an unaccented and ends with an accented (stressed) syllable. It is the most common meter in the English language and naturally falls into everyday conversation. An example is "To be or not to be" from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Trochaic The opposite of an iambic meter. It begins with an accented then followed by an unaccented syllable. An example is the line "Doule, doule, toil and trouble." from Shakespeare's Macbeth. Anapestic A foot which has two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable. Example: "I arise and unbuild it again" from Shelley's Cloud. Dactylic A foot including an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables. Example: openly. Spondee A foot consisting of two accented syllables. Example: heartbreak. Pyrrhic A foot including two unaccented syllables, generally used to vary rhythm. Each pair of unstressed and stressed syllables makes up a unit called a foot. The meters with two-syllable feet are
Iambic pentameter (5 iambs, 10 syllables)
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The very helpful structure that you have posed.. Thanks
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really helpful
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Worth sharing.
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