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  • the line
    • first difference between prose and poetry 
      •  prose is written between the margins, while poetry is written in lines that don't follow margins
    • verse
      • to turn 
      • poets need to understand the effects created by the turning of the line
    • length and rhythm
      • each line in a poem can be broken into feet and each foot into stresses to show rhythmic pattern
        • this is called scansion
      • an iamb is one light stress followed by a heavy one
    • metrical lines
      • one-foot= monometer
      • two-foot= dimeter
      • three-foot= trimeter
      • four-foot=tetrameter
      • five-foot= pentameter
    • metrical feet and symbols
      • iamb- 
        • light stress followed by heavy one
      • trochee-
        • heavy stress followed by light one
      • dactyl
        • heavy stress followed by two light ones
      • anapest
        • two light stress followed by a heavy one
      • spondee 
        • two equal stresses
    • constancy
      • this is the rhythmatic pattern that makes people enjoy poems 
    • variation
      • some variation in poems can make the pattern stronger
    • the beginning and end of a line
      • when a poem starts with a heavy stress it shows that something dramatic will happen
      • true rhyme
        • the words rhyme on a single stressed syllable
    • turning the line
      • at the end of each line there is a pause this is part of the motion of the poem

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