1/24/12

Post date: Jan 24, 2012 5:43:44 PM

Poetry. Today we begun poetry. Your assignment is to write six 10-syllable lines. Write six lines of words (does not need to be a sentence). Each line will have 10 syllables.

This is the difficult part: the syllables must follow a pattern. Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed . . . for ten syllables.

Iambic: When snow is falling to the ground the windows all get frost u /

Trochaic: Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pale of water / u

Write three 10-syllable lines of iambic rhythm.

Write three 10-syllable lines of trochaic rhythm.