Poetry Unit 1

• The u symbol represents unstressed
• The / symbol represents stressed
• Iambic

  unstressed STRESSED
• Trochaic

  STRESSED unstressed
• Anapestic

  unstressed unstressed STRESSED
• Dactylic

  STRESSED unstressed unstressed
• Spondee

  STRESSED STRESSED
• Iambic, Trochaic, Anapestic, Dactylic, and Spondee are all types of meter
• Elision


  combine syllables
• Catalectic


  incomplete foot at the end
• Volta


  turn in the poem; marked by “but”, “yet”, etc.
• Blank Verse


  unrhymed iambic pentameter
• Free Verse


  unrhymed, no meter
• Shakespeare (English) Sonnet

  • Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
  • Lines: 14 (three quatrains and one couplet)
  • Volta: traditional falls at the couplet
  • Meter: iambic pentameter
• • Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet
  • An octave with a problem and a sextet with a solution
  • Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA [final 6 lines vary]
  • Lines: 14
  • Volta: 9th Line
  • Meter: iambic pentameter