Rhythm

~ Syarmimi bt Ellias ~ Sriyani bt Fadzil

What is Rhythm?

The flow of stressed and unstressed of syllables. A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.

In Rhythm

Need to know how many stressed and unstressed syllables there are in a line of poetry.

How to identify rhythm?

1. The number of syllables in a line 2. The number of stressed or accented syllables 3. The number of individual units of both stressed and unstressed syllables.

A Glance Over Meter

Types of Feet Kind of Metrical Lines (Length of Lines)

Types of Feet
Iambic Trochaic Spondaic Anapestic Dactylic unstressed, stressed stressed, unstressed stressed, stressed unstressed, unstressed, stressed stressed, unstressed, unstressed

Kind of Metrical Lines ( Length of lines)

Monometer = one foot in a line Dimeter = two feet in a line Trimeter = three feet in a line Tetrameter = four feet in a line Pentameter = five feet in a line Hexameter = six feet in a line Heptameter = seven feet in a line Octometer = eight feet in a line

Poem Analysis (Line 6 10)

Her comb found every strand, Sadie was one of the livingest chits In all the land. Sadie bore two babies Under her maiden name.
Sadie and Maud (Gwendolyn Brooks)

Line 6
Her comb found every strand

Her comb / found e / very strand

Iambic trimeter
(x) = unstressed (/) = stressed

Line 7
Sadie was one of the livingest chits

/ x / x / x / x / Sa die / was one / of the / li vi / ngest chits

Iambic pentameter
(x) = unstressed (/) = stressed

Line 8
In all the land x / x / In all / the land
Iambic dimeter
(x) = unstressed (/) = stressed

Line 9
Sadie bore two babies x / x / x / Sa die / bore two / ba bies
Iambic trimeter
(x) = unstressed (/) = stressed

Line 10
Under her maiden name x / x / x / Un der / her mai / den name
Iambic trimeter
(x) = unstressed (/) = stressed

References
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