Can you give me an example? Thanks. :)
2007-01-30 13:45:24 · 4 answers · asked by Jenny 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Some patterns (such as iambic pentameter) tend to be fairly regular, while other patterns, such as dactylic hexameter, tend to be highly irregular. Regularity can vary between language. In addition, different patterns often develop distinctively in different languages, so that, for example, iambic tetrameter in Russian will generally reflect a regularity in the use of accents to reinforce the meter, which does not occur or occurs to a much lesser extent in English
Iambic pentameter (John Milton, Paradise Lost[39])
Dactylic hexameter (Homer, Iliad;[40] Ovid, The Metamorphoses)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry#Metrical_patterns
Hope this helps....
-dawgy
2007-01-30 14:06:13 · answer #1 · answered by Sumdawgy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a meter in poetry refers to the rythm of a poem or how it sounds. say one line is: the big yellow dog
and the second is:
stinks and looks and acts and feels like a hog
and the third is: lives in a bog
the rythm isnt similar. i hope that helps you a bit...
2007-01-30 22:09:36 · answer #2 · answered by arjunkumar91 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cadence is off by at least on syllable.
2007-01-30 21:53:02 · answer #3 · answered by boxersgirlbunny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
irregulometer
rhymes with
thermometer
cute little poem if I do say so myself
2007-01-30 21:51:37 · answer #4 · answered by Yo Mum Mum 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋