03-04-2016, 12:55 PM
As Todd notes, formal meter is basically a requirement for a consistent rhyme scheme. So the meter must be consistent first, for that to happen on must decide what meter one is going to write in.
Where are you the keeper of my heart? ( trochee pentameter/ half foot)
How dare you commit such stealing. (1 foot iamb, 1 foot anapest, 1 foot iamb, with a hanging foot)
Without it, I can't do fine art, (iambic tetrameter)
Or attend to things with feeling. (trochee tetrameter.)
If the meter were consistent then the accent (in bold) would fall on in the same place, on the same syllable each time. Just for the sake for example (mostly nonsense verse)
[b]You [/b]the [b]stea[/b]ler [b]of my heart
[/b][b]with [/b]out[b] it[/b], I'll do no art.
2 lines of trochee trimeter with a hanging foot. Trochee being 2 syllables with the accent on the first. Trimeter meaning three.
Formal verse is a good place to start, too often people want to jump right into free verse without having developed any sense of cadence, caesura, etc., that one learns from formal verse and needs to know to have something other than a superficial knowledge of free verse.
dale
Where are you the keeper of my heart? ( trochee pentameter/ half foot)
How dare you commit such stealing. (1 foot iamb, 1 foot anapest, 1 foot iamb, with a hanging foot)
Without it, I can't do fine art, (iambic tetrameter)
Or attend to things with feeling. (trochee tetrameter.)
If the meter were consistent then the accent (in bold) would fall on in the same place, on the same syllable each time. Just for the sake for example (mostly nonsense verse)
[b]You [/b]the [b]stea[/b]ler [b]of my heart
[/b][b]with [/b]out[b] it[/b], I'll do no art.
2 lines of trochee trimeter with a hanging foot. Trochee being 2 syllables with the accent on the first. Trimeter meaning three.
Formal verse is a good place to start, too often people want to jump right into free verse without having developed any sense of cadence, caesura, etc., that one learns from formal verse and needs to know to have something other than a superficial knowledge of free verse.
dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.