Meter

Meter or Metre is the name of rythmic structure in poetry. It refers to the syllabel count and stress in a line or stanza. Metric poetry does not concern itself with rhyme, it rather focuses on rythm.

A meter type is usually 2 or 3 syllabels, which, when put together, make more specific types of meter.

For example:

Trochee: stressed, unstressed- TA, ta

Iamb: unstressed, stressed- ta, TA

Dactyl: stressed, unstresswed, unstressed- TA, ta, ta

Anapest: unstresswed, unstressed, stressed- ta, ta, TA

If added together they make different "feet", 1 is a monometer, 2 diasmeter, and so on. Greco-Roman epics are written in dactylic hexametre, 6 dactyls per line, and sonnets are usually written in a iambic pentametre, 5 iambs (Muniz).

Works Cited

“Iambic Hexameter.” Iambic Hexameter Is Six Feet per Line, mammothmemory.net/english/literature/poetry-feet-and-metres/iambic-hexameter.html. Accessed 3 Oct. 2024.

“Poetry 101: What Is Meter? Learn the Difference between Qualitative and Quantitative Meter in Poetry with Examples - 2024.” MasterClass, www.masterclass.com/articles/poetry-101-what-is-meter-learn-the-difference-between-qualitative-and-quantitative-meter-in-poetry-with-examples. Accessed 3 Oct. 2024.

Muniz, Hannah. “What Is a Sonnet? The 6 Forms, Explained.” PrepScholar, blog.prepscholar.com/what-is-a-sonnet-poem-form. Accessed 17 Oct. 2024.