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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