8/10/2023 0 Comments Marked 2 syllables![]() ![]() Timothy Steele’s “Sapphics Against Anger” uses anaphora in the repetition of the phrase “May I.”Īpproximate rhyme: Assonance and half rhyme (or slant rhyme). Anacrusis is used to change a rising meter to falling and vice versa to alter the reader’s emotional response to the subject.Īnapest: A foot in which two unstressed syllables are associated with one stressed syllable, as in the line, “Wi∪th th∪e si′ ft/ed∪, ha∪rmo′n/i∪ou∪s pau′se.” The anapestic foot is one of the three most common in English poetry and is used to create a highly rhythmical, usually emotional, line.Īnaphora: The use of the same word or words to begin successive phrases or lines. For example, anacrusis occurs in the line: “the∪ir sho′ul/der∪s he′ld th∪e s′ky/su∪spe′nde∪d.” This line is described as iambic tetrameter with terminal anacrusis. Without recognizing the allusion and understanding the biblical reference to Noah and the surrounding associations of hate and desire, the reader cannot fully appreciate the poem.Īnacrusis: The addition of an extra unstressed syllable to the beginning or end of a line the opposite of truncation. “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost, for example, alludes to the biblical account of the flood and the prophecy that the next destruction will come by fire, not water. Because a reader cannot easily skim over an alliterative line, it is conspicuous and demands emphasis.Īllusion: A reference to a historical or literary event whose story or outcome adds dimension to the poem. The allegorical mode may dominate the entire work, in which case the encoded message is the work’s primary excuse for being, or it may be an element in a work otherwise interesting and meaningful for its surface story alone.Īlliteration: The repetition of consonants at the beginning of syllables for example, “Large mannered motions of his mythy mind.” Alliteration is used when the poet wishes to focus on the details of a sequence of words and to show relationships between words within a line. In the first line of William Shakespeare’s sonnet 130, “My∪ mi′stre∪ss’ e′yes ar∪e no′thin∪g li∪ke th∪e su′n,” there is a pattern of alternating unstressed with stressed syllables, although there is a substitution of an unstressed syllable for a stressed syllable at the word “like.” In the accentual-syllabic system, stressed and unstressed syllables are grouped together into feet.Īllegory: A literary mode in which a second level of meaning-wherein characters, events, and settings represent abstractions-is encoded within the surface narrative. It is the most common base meter for English poetry. An example from modern poetry is “Blue Moles” by Sylvia Plath, the first line of which scans: “The′y’re ou′t of the dar′k′s ra′gbag, these tw′o.” Because there are five stressed syllables in this accentually based poem, the reader can expect that many of the other lines will also contain five stresses.Īccentual-syllabic meter: A base meter that measures the pattern of stressed syllables relative to the unstressed ones. It is one of four base meters used in English (accentual, accentual-syllabic, syllabic, and quantitative). By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on SeptemĪccentual meter: A base meter in which the occurrence of a syllable marked by a stress determines the basic unit, regardless of the number of unstressed syllables. ![]()
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