Poetry 101: A refresher course. Shutta Crum, Jackson, MI., WordWise Conference, Oct., 2007. Types of metric feet: Pyrrhic: Spondee:

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Dr.  Wheeler’s   Super-­Secret  System  for  Superior  Scansion  of  Sonnets.     STEP  ONE:  Count  how  many  syllables  you  think  are  in  the  line

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• Poetics
• Prosody
• Metrical feet
• Phonetics
• Scansion
• Metre
• Syllable
• Stress
• Spondee
• Linguistics
• Phonology
• Poetry

Examples of Iambs, Trochees, Spondees, Dactyls, and Anapests Once we know what stress is, we can note that many words and phrases in English naturally fall into iambs, trochees, spondees, dactyls, or anapests. Such words

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• Poetics
• Metre
• Anapaest
• Trochee
• Dactyl
• Spondee
• Iamb
• Foot
• Meter
• Metrical feet
• Poetry
• Literature

iF Poems Metrical Feet — A Lesson for a Boy by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks, strong foot!, yet ill able

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HOMERIC TRANSLATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE: A REPLY TO MATTHEW ARNOLD, ESQ.,

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• Iliad
• Matthew Arnold
• Literature
• Homer
• Spondee
• Metre
• Dactylic hexameter
• English people
• British people
• Epic Cycle