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Basic Meter
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English
Undergraduate 4
12/18/2008

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Iambic
Definition
v / ;"One day I wrote her name upon the strand" (Spenser)
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trochaic
Definition
/ v ; "Trochees simply tumble on" "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick"
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Spondaic
Definition
/ / ; "Thou hast bound bones...." (Hopkins)
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Pyrrhic
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v v ; "Of the."
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Anaspestic
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v v / ; "And the sheen of their spears was like stars...." (Byron)
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Dactylic
Definition
/ v v ; "This is the forest primeval. The murmuring...." (Longfellow)
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Alexandrine
Definition
iambic hexameter, or any hexameter: ("A needless alexandrine ends the song/that like a wooden snake, drags its slow length along." - Pope)
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Fourteeners
Definition
Seven-beat lines, generally iambic
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Blank verse
Definition
unrhymed iambic pentametere (Paradise Lost)
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Catalectic
Definition
A line that is lacking one syllable at the end
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