Rules for Poets

skysidhe · 08-28-2009, 07:55 AM

lol It says so. I guess it's not possible to have 5 left feet in poetry.
Like a caterpillar it just gets up and goes no matter the number of feet or whether I understand it or not. I'm trying.

The English word "trapeze" is an example of an iambic pair of syllables, since the word is made up of two syllables ("tra—peze") and is pronounced with the stress on the second syllable ("tra—PEZE", rather than "TRA—peze"). Iambic pentameter is a line made up of five pairs of short/long, or unstressed/stressed, syllables.A line of iambic pentameter is five iambic feet in a row:da DUM (1) da DUM (2) da DUM(3) da DUM(4) da DUM (5)

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08-28-2009, 07:55 AM	#1
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	lol It says so. I guess it's not possible to have 5 left feet in poetry. Like a caterpillar it just gets up and goes no matter the number of feet or whether I understand it or not. I'm trying. The English word "trapeze" is an example of an iambic pair of syllables, since the word is made up of two syllables ("tra—peze") and is pronounced with the stress on the second syllable ("tra—PEZE", rather than "TRA—peze"). Iambic pentameter is a line made up of five pairs of short/long, or unstressed/stressed, syllables.A line of iambic pentameter is five iambic feet in a row:da DUM (1) da DUM (2) da DUM(3) da DUM(4) da DUM (5)

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