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Form and Structure

Metrical foot iamb (^ /) trochee (/ ^) anapest (^ ^ /) dactyl (/ ^ ^ ) spondee (/ /)

Try it on this I would not be so all alone, Everybody must get stoned.

Line Lengths Monometer dimeter trimeter tetrameter pentameter hexameter (alexandrine) heptameter octameter

--Number of lines in a stanza --Rhyme Scheme English Sonnet Free Verse (note comments about ties to meaning p.573) ad hoc verse form -- there is a pattern, but not an “established” one. “Art Ballad” -- based on established form, but so varied so as not to be mistaken for it. (see p Barbara Allen)

Verse Forms blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) couplet (aa) –tetrameter couplet (aabb) terza rima (aba bcb cdc ded) quatrains –Ballad stanza (abab or abcb) –Heroic quatrains (abab)

Verse Forms rhyme royal (seven lines -- ababbcc) ottava rima (abababcc) Spenserian stanza (nine lines -- ababbcbcc) Sonnet -- (fourteen lines) –English (abab cdcd efef gg) –Italian (abbaabba cdedce) There are tons of others -- a whole book full: Haiku, villanelle, limerick, alphabet poem, sestina

Let’s scan one Dominant rhythm length of lines number of lines in a stanza rhyme scheme of stanzas Brooks, 737, We Real Cool Millay, 733, Love is not all: