Meter in poetry is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
stressed syllables are signified by /
unstressed by u
There are multiple meter patterns but the four most prevalent are:
iambic: u /
trochaic: / u
dactylic: / u u
anapestic: u u /
Word examples:
Iamb (u /): hello
Trochee (/ u): under
Dactyl (/ u u): canopy
Anapest (u u / ): understand
Poetry examples:
Iambic (u / u / u / u / u /): Shall I compare thee to a summers day
Trochaic (/ u / u / u / u): Double, double, toil and trouble
Dactylic (/ u u / u u): Take her up tenderly
Anapestic (u u / u u / u u / u u /): So I walk by the edge of a lake in my dream
My Dad measures the things using a meter stick.
The gap was one meter long.
I used meter in my poem to create a rhyming pattern.
Every three syllables in each line is accented - Apex
The math teacher taught the fourth graders about meters.
A meter is a rejular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
Any three-line stanza
example of meter in poetry
There are 14 syllables in each line.
To make poems easier to say and remember
To fit a given name into the line's meter
YesNo, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece while narrative poems, are not, strictly speaking, epics: in scope, or in meter, or rhyme scheme.
It is called a meter.
There are 14 syllables in each line.
The speaker shows his sarcasm by using the word ridiculous to describe May Apex :)
14 syllables in each line is the correct one (apex)just took the quiz^
Meter.
alliteration
The verb in that sentence is describes.
structured verse
No, iambic meter is actually the most common meter in poetry. Dactylic meter is less common but can be found in poems, such as Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha."
To make poems easier to say and remember
My sister is one meter tall
He wrote masterful poems that attacked his enemies.
Our electricity meter is outside the house.