1. Rainiel De Leon Joey Roldan
Meter
Rainiel De Leon
Joey Roldan

2. What is Meter?
Recurring patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

3. Basic Patterns of Stress
Iambic foot
Trochaic foot
Anapestic foot
Dactylic foot
Spondaic foot
METER Def.: Recurring patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

4. Iambic foot
Consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.

5. Iambic foot example Before : (be-FORE) Be- = unstressed syllable
Fore = stressed syllable
Return : (re-TURN)
Re- = unstressed syllable

6. Trochaic foot
Consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.

7. Funny : (FUN-ny) Double: (DOU-ble) Trochaic foot example
Fun- = stressed syllable
ny = unstressed syllable
Double: (DOU-ble)
Dou- = stressed syllable
ble = unstressed syllable

8. Anapestic foot
Consists of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one.
Example:
Contradict = Con-tra-DICT

9. Dactylic foot
Consists of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Examples:
Merrily = (MER-ri-ly)
Syllable = (SY-lla-ble)

10. Spondaic foot Consists of two stressed syllables. Example:
Moonshine = (MOON-SHINE)
Football = (FOOT–BALL)

11. LINES
Lines are classified according to the number of metrical feet they contain:
Monometer (one foot)
Dimeter (two feet)
Trimeter (three feet)
Tetrameter (four feet)
Pentameter (five feet)
Hexameter (six feet), and so on…

12. Examples for the class “Cruel and sudden, has thou since
Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?
Wherein could this flea guilty be,
Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?”
“The Flea” p. 580
by John Donne
Can you name patterns you see?
How many metric feet do the lines contain?