meter, substitutions, pauses. the recurring pattern of sounds that give poems written in verse their...
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Meter, substitutions, pauses
Prosody
The recurring pattern of sounds that give poems written in verse their distinctive rhythms
Accentual-syllabic meter is based both on number of syllables in a line and on the pattern of stresses in each metrical unit, or foot.
Meter
A cha pel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the greenTwo unstressed followed by one stressed
Anapest
Meter - 1
˘ ’ ˘ ˘ ’ ˘ ˘ ’A Cha / pel was built / in the midst, ˘ ’ ˘ ˘ ’ ˘ ˘ Where I / used to play / on the ’greenThree feet each line (# of times stress pattern repeated per line)
Three feet + Anapest = anapestic trimeter
Meter - 1
The woods / de cay, / the woods / de cay / and fall,
The va / pors weep / their bur /then to / the ground,
Man comes / and tills / the field / and lies / be neath,
And af / ter ma / ny a sum / mer dies / the swan.
Meter - 2
Jew els / in joy / de signed
To rav / ish the sen / su ous mind
Lie light / less, all / their spar / kles bleared / and black / and blind. Unstressed followed by stressed
Lines 1-2 have three feet – iambic trimeter•Line 3 has six feet – iambic hexameter
Meter - 3
Earth, re / ceive an / hon oured / guest;
Will iam / Yeats is / laid to / rest.
Let the / I rish / ves sel / lie
Emp tied / of its / po et / ry.•Stressed followed by unstressed•Four feet per line•Trochaic tetrameter •Catalectic last foot
Meter - 4
When a man / hath no free / dom to fight / for at home,
Let him com / bat for that / of his neigh / bors;
Let him think / of the glo / ries of Greece / and of Rome,
And get knocked / on the head / for his la / bors.
Meter - 5
When a man / hath no free / dom to fight / for at home,
Let him com / bat for that / of his neigh / bors;
Let him think / of the glo / ries of Greece / and of Rome,
And get knocked / on the head / for his la / bors
Anapestic tetrameter alternating with anapestic trimeter with an extra unstressed foot (feminine ending) in lines two and four
Meter - 5
Any variant foot within a line that consists predominantly of another metrical patternSpondaic foot – two stressed syllables in a row
Trochee at the start of an iambic line
Anapestic foot within an iambic line
Catalectic – at the end of a trochaic or dactylic line
Substitutions
Lines that end with a strong stress are said to have a masculine ending.
Lines that end in an unstressed syllable are said to have a feminine ending.
Substitutions
Ah! Well – a- day! What e vil looks
Had I from old and young!
In stead of the cross, the Al ba tross
A bout my neck was hung.Predominant pattern – Unstressed followed by stressed
iamb
Substitutions - 1
Ah! Well / -a-day! / what e / vil looks
Had I / from old / and young!
In stead / of the cross, / the Al / ba tross
A bout / my neck / was hung.Predominantly Iambic (Unstressed followed by stressed)• Tetrameter alternating with trimeter: ballad meter• Spondee: the first foot of lines 1 & 2; extra unstressed syllable in line three: “of the cross”
Substitutions - 1
The hand / that held / my wrist
Was bat / tered on / one knuc / kle;
At ev / ery step / you missed
My right / ear scraped / a buc / kle.Iambic trimeter (unstressed followed by stressed; three feet to line)
An extra unstressed syllable at the ends of lines 2 & 4 (feminine endings); a spondee at “ear scraped”
Substitutions - 2
I will / a rise / and go now, / for al / ways night / and day
I hear / lake wa / ter lap / ping with / low sounds / by the shore.Iambic hexameter – six feet; unstressed – stressed
Spondees at “go now,” and “low sounds”; and extra unstressed syllable at “and” in line 1 and “by the” in line 2
Substitutions - 3
The dew / of the morn / ing
Sunk chill / on my brow –
It felt / like the warn / ing
Of what / I feel now.Two unstressed followed by stressed; two feet
Missing unstressed syllable at the start of each line; extra unstressed syllable at the end of lines 1 & 3 (feminine ending); spondees at “sunk chill” and “I feel now,” with an extra stressed syllable in the latter foot
Substitutions - 4
Wo man much / missed, how you / call to me, / call to me,
Say ing that / now you are / not as you / were
When you had / changed from the / one who was / all to me,
But as at / first, when / our day was / fair.Four feet of a stressed followed by two unstressed
– dactylic tetrameter
Missing unstressed syllables ends of lines 2 & 4; caesura 2nd foot of 4th line; spondee at “our day”
Substitutions - 5
End-stopped • Contains complete thought (complete
sentence or independent clause)
• Distinct pause at the end, usually indicated by a mark of punctuation
• Calls attention to the complete thought expressed
Pauses
Enjambed lines• Sentence or clause continues for
two or more lines
• No punctuation appears at the end of the enjambed lines
Pauses
Caesura• A pause in the midst of a verse
line
• Indicated by a mark of punctuation
• Creates a shift in the rhythmic pattern which parallels a shift in the focus
Pauses
How do I love thee? // Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, // when felling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.End-stopped: complete thought ends with line
Enjambed: thought continues to next line.
Pauses - 1
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, // of golden daffodils.
Pauses - 2
What the hammer? // what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? // what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
Pauses - 3
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, // with vilest worms to dwell.
Pauses - 4
The flowers do fade, // and wanton fields
To wayward winter reckoning yields;
A honey tongue, // a heart of gall,
Is fancy’s spring, // but sorrow’s fall.
Pauses - 5
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Sun days / too my / fa ther / got up / ear ly
˘ ’ ˘ ’ ˘ ’ ˘ ’ ’ ’
and put / his clothes / on in / the blue / black cold,
˘ ˘ ’ ’ ˘ ’
then with / cracked hands / that ached
˘ ’ ˘ ’ ˘ ’ ’ ’ ˘ ’
from la / bor in / the week / day wea / ther made
’ ˘ ’ ’ ’ ’ ˘ ’ ’
banked fires / blaze. // No one / ev er / thanked him.
Those Winter Sundays
’ ’ ˘ ’ ˘ ’ ’ ˘ ˘ ’ ˘
I’d wake / and hear / the cold / splin / ter ing, / break ing.
˘ ˘ ’ ˘ ’ ˘ ’
When the rooms / were warm, / he’d call,
˘ ’ ˘ ’ ’ ’ ˘ ’
and slow / ly I / would rise / and dress,
’ ˘ ˘ ’ ˘ ’ ˘ ˘ ’ ’
fear ing / the chron / ic an / gers of / that house,
Those Winter Sundays – cont’d
’ ˘ ˘ ’ ˘ ˘ ˘ ˘ ’
Speak ing / in dif / fer ent ly / to him,
’ ’ ’ ˘ ’ ˘ ’
who / had dri / ven out / the cold
˘ ’ ˘ ˘ ’ ’ ˘ ’
and po / lished my / good shoes / as well.
’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’
What did / I know, // what did / I know
˘ ’ ˘ ’ ˘ ’ ˘ ’ ˘ ˘
of love’s / aus tere / and lone / ly off i ces?
Those Winter Sundays – cont’d
Reminiscence of the narrator’s difficult childhood.
Blames father – resentment made him treat father with indifference
Yet, looking back remembers the “austere and lonely offices” that his father performed for him
Diction? colloquial
Tone? conversational
Those Winter Sundays