English · KS3 Y7 · Analysing Texts
Rhyme and rhythm basics
Rhyme and rhythm basicsFree5:58Heddy Score 3 of 7, below the standard
What you need to know
- Metre is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
- An iamb is unstressed-stressed; five iambs make iambic pentameter, as in Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.
- A trochee is stressed-unstressed, an anapest is two unstressed then a stress, and a dactyl is a stress then two unstressed.
- Reading a line aloud in its natural stresses helps you hear the metre.
- Places where a poem breaks its usual metre are good moments to ask why and build an interpretation.
In this clip
Runs 5:58, from 0:00 to 5:58 of the full video.
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Clearly demonstrates how to hear stress patterns in poetry and names the four main metrical feet with well-known examples.
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