Thursday, June 2, 2011

Meter

Meter
Definition: A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable.

Example: 
~      ~   /   ~    ~      /   ~    ~    /
From  the  centre  all  round  to  the  sea,
~   ~    /   ~    ~    /     ~    ~      /
I  am  lord  of  the  fowl  and  the  brute.
 
Significance:  
Meter brings some sort of emotions to the readers or listeners. 
As the reader is reading the poem, meter can help them to feel the beat of poems.
 


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