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☆☆☆☆☆Iambic pentameter and iambic tetrameter are the most common metrical lines. The iamb is by far the most common metrical foot in English poetry as it is the rhythm that most closely resembles normal speech. Iambic pentameter is the classic metrical form for English poetry, but iambic tetrameter is also very common.
blank verse
An end-stopped line occurs when a line that ends with a full pause or break in the meter is followed by punctuation.
PROSODY is defined as the examination and classification of the elements of poetry.
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they were superstitious
They were very wasteful of the buffalo
No. Hear and near are not an example of slant rhyme.
Corn is an important crop in mexico
… the brackish water itself, however nauseous to the rest of the world, was so greatly esteemed by these fowls, that they might be seen tasting, turning up their heads, and smacking their bills, with precisely the air of wine-bibbers round a probationary cask.
We had dinner out in that broad open passage...and there was things enough on that table for seven families--and all hot, too; none of your flabby, tough meat that's laid in a cupboard in a damp cellar all night and tastes like a hunk of old cold cannibal in the morning.
A person in an official position of authority had taken money from the immigrants.
