02-26-2014, 07:13 AM
The basics are listed in this thread;
http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/showthread.php?tid=3512
And I found this to be really helpful in getting up and running.
http://www.firesides.ca/scansion6.htm
Reading and practicing are ultimately the only way to progress though. Id recommend "An essay on criticism" by Alexander Pope. It's written in heroic couplets of iambic pentameter (5 feet of soft HARD per line).
If you read a few pages at a time, then try to write yourself, you'll find the rhythm working its way into your ear.
best of luck.
http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/showthread.php?tid=3512
And I found this to be really helpful in getting up and running.
http://www.firesides.ca/scansion6.htm
Reading and practicing are ultimately the only way to progress though. Id recommend "An essay on criticism" by Alexander Pope. It's written in heroic couplets of iambic pentameter (5 feet of soft HARD per line).
If you read a few pages at a time, then try to write yourself, you'll find the rhythm working its way into your ear.
best of luck.