Meter in Poetry

What is Meter?

• One way to organize the rhythm of poetry. It involves a set of pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• About 3 feet

• Syllables of an appositive phrase

• Anapest, Dactyl, and Iamb

What is a foot?

• Something attached to your leg

• Each unit of poetry

• Repetition

• Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

How many iambs are in an iambic pentameter?

• 1

• 2

• 9

• 5

Which of the following is an iamb?

• Dadum

• daDum

• DADAdum

• dadaDum

Meter involves:

• A pattern

• Different syllables

• A set pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• A measure of music