1. Poetry vocab Hello English Students! The vocab in this show is also on your list. The monometer, dimeter, etc are the “metrical vocab” listed. Answer the questions in Word and put in the drop box!

2. Each poem is made up of… Syllables, which make… A foot, Feet, which make a line Lines, which make stanzas Stanzas, which make a poem. A foot is the repeated chunk of syllables The way a waltz requires three beats over and over. Those three beats would be the foot.

3. Foot labels: see board for marks Iamb=, “Iambic foot” unstressed, stressed The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love (underlines syllables are stressed!) Trochaic, trochee=2 beats, stressed, unstressed Double, double, toil and trouble Anapest, anapestic=3 beats, un, un, stressed I am monarch of all I survey Dactylic, dactyl=3 beats, stressed, un, un Take her up tenderly

4. A foot is made of each repeating pattern of syllables It is like the lowest common denominator in math.

5. Once you identify the foot: Count how many feet per line. Your choices are: Monometer=once Dimeter-twice Trimeter-3x Tetrameter=4x Pentameter=5x Hexameter=6x Heptameter=7x Octameter=8x

6. SOMETIMES Poets mix up their rhythm, or throw in a spondee (2 beats) or monosyllabic (1 beat) foot for effect. SPONDEE, SPONDAIC Means two equally stressed syllables Monosyllabic foot One syllable line, common in modern poetry

7. Blank verse= Unrhymed iambic pentameter. How many beats per line in blank verse? Figure this out, do math! If this does not make sense to you, got to the next slide …

8. OK, step by step. How many beats in an iambic foot? 2 How many feet in PENTameter? 5 So multiple.

9. Dactylic hexameter How many beats per line? (you have to think, how many beats in a dactylic foot, then multiple by the number of feet)

10. Anapestic dimeter How many beats per line?

11. Spondaic tetrameter How many beats?

12. What kind of meter? At the far end of town where the grickle grass grows… First mark stress Then count how many repeating patterns Then label it with a foot word and a meter word.

13. Remember to submit the answers for the questions to the drop box!