![]() ![]() However, if you have or know of an example, and would like for it to be up here, feel free to comment and I'll add it immediately. There are many examples of poetic feet out there that you can find through browsing deviantART literature or entering the term into a search engine. I will not be providing examples for any of the metrical units for feet. In the examples below we will only be using two marks to represent our meters: the breve (˘) for unstressed syllables and the ictus (/) for stressed. A Shakespearean Sonnet and Alcaic Verse are examples of strophes. Strophe - (Referring to poetry with meter) A metrically fixed stanza that may or may not vary the meter for each line of the stanza. ![]() In some methods of scansion there are varying levels of stress. In English, a syllable is usually considered stressed or unstressed. Stress - The relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence. Many different systems have been established to mark the scansion of a poem. Scansion - A method of marking the metrical patterns of a line of poetry. Prosody - The science or study of poetic meters and versification. Meter - The basic rhythmic structure of a line of poetry consisting of units of feet, cola and/or caesurae and hemistichs. A hemistich is also commonly referred to as a half-line, and that's what we will be calling it (for the most part). Translated Odes from HoraceThe hemistichs could add up as multiple caesurae split the line, as they can do. Old Caecuban wine, whilst for the Capitol Prior to this 'twas, irreligious to waste
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