1. Shakespeare Meter and Rhythm

2. Describing Poetry
We describe a line of poetry with a two-word naming system, kind of like we use for cars and other objects.
Ford    Mustang            corn      bread          iambic     pentameter
make     model      what it’s       what it       type of       number
                                  made from          is              feet             feet
  What is being described by this two-word name is the pattern of syllables in the line of poetry.  The first word tells us the type of foot, and the second word tells us the number of that kind of foot, or the meter. 
The scansion of a poem, its feet and meter, are what give the poem rhythm.

3. Syl-la-ble syllable (n): smallest single sound unit of a word.
There are two types: stressed (or emphasized), and unstressed. 
Words that have more than one syllable (multi-syllabic words) will have one primary, or most heavily, stressed syllable. 
For example, the word “elephant” has three syllables; the first is the most-heavily stressed, the second is unstressed, and third is stressed a little bit.

4. Syl-la-ble
  A multi-syllabic word may have one or more secondary, or less emphasized, stressed syllables. 
For example, the word “elevator” has four syllables; the first syllable is the primary stressed syllable, and the third syllable is a secondary stressed syllable (stressed, but not as heavily as the first syllable). 
Syllables two and four are unstressed.

5. Scansion
We can show which syllable is stressed in a word by writing a short diagonal mark over it ( / ).
We can indicate an unstressed syllable by writing a small scoop mark over it ( U ).
The syllable pattern for the word “elephant” would look like this:  /   U   /
scansion [or scan](v): finding the syllable patterns (feet and meter) in a poem or in a line of poetry  (n): the syllable patterns in a poem or a line of poetry

6. MOVIE

7. Iamb U /
iamb (n) [adj – iambic]: a two-syllable foot made up of one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable
Words: behold, destroy, inject, insist
            When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes,
                  I all alone beweep my outcast state… 
[Shakespeare, Sonnet 29]

8. Trochee / U
trochee (n) [adj – trochaic]: a two-syllable foot made up of one stressed syllable and one unstressed syllable
Words: happy, beat it, dental, market, roses
            Tiger! Tiger! burning bright       
        In the forests of the night…  [Blake, “The Tiger”]

9. Dactyl / U U
Dactyl (n) [adj – Dactylic]: a three-syllable foot made up of one stressed syllable and two unstressed syllables
Words: carefully, mannequin, tenderly, prominent, notable
 See in the dark what the officer's doing there 

10. Anapest U U /
anapest (n) [adj – anapestic]:  a three-syllable foot with an unstressed-unstressed-stressed pattern
 Words: understand, interrupt, get a life, contradict
There was a young belle from old Natchez
Whose garments were nothing but patches;
When comment arose
On the state of her clothes
She replied, When Ah itchez, Ah scratches.
(“Requiem” by Ogden Nash)

11. Spondee / /
Spondee (n) [adj – Spondaic]: a two-syllable foot made up of two stressed syllables.
Words: football, Mayday, Shortcake, love-song, breakdown
Drop dead!          Bite this!          No head!          No kiss!

12. Pyrrhus U U
Pyrrhus (n) [adj – Pyrrhic]: a two-syllable foot made up of two unstressed syllables.
Words: to a, with a, in a,
To a green thought in a green shade.

13. 1 Monometer [muh-NOM-i-ter] 2 Dimeter [DIM-i-ter] 3 Trimeter
number
called
Pronouced: 1
Monometer
[muh-NOM-i-ter]  2
Dimeter
[DIM-i-ter]  3
Trimeter
[TRIM-i-ter] 4
tetrameter
[te-TRAM-i-ter] 5
Pentameter
[pen-TAM-i-ter] 6
Hexameter
[hek-SAM-i-ter] 7
heptameter
[hep-TAM-i-ter] 8
Octameter
[ok-TAM-i-ter] 9
Nonameter
[NON-nuh-mee-ter]  10
decameter
[DEK-uh-mee-ter]