Which syllables are more pronounced? Which are naturally softer? U U U U She Walks in Beauty Reading this poem out loud makes the rhythm evident. She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. The length of the line of poetry is then labeled according to how many feet are in it. Rising and fallingĮach set of syllables is one foot, and each line is measured by how many feet are in it. In the twentieth century, the bouncing meters-anapestic and dactylic-have been used more often for comic verse than for serious poetry. Iambic and anapestic meters are called rising meters because their movement rises from unstressed syllable to stressed trochaicand dactylic meters are called falling. iambic anapestic trochaic dactylic pyrrhic spondee If the line is anapestic or dactylic, a foot of poetry has 3 syllables. So, if the line is iambic or trochaic, a foot of poetry has 2 syllables.Each foot consists of one unit of rhythm.The length of a line of poetry is measured in metrical units called “FEET”.Meter: pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Used to describe rhythm mark the stresses (/) and absences of stress (U) count the number of feet.
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