Recovering the Rhythms of Poetry: The Elements of Versification

accent mark according to pattern anapests Answer apostrophe basic pattern blank verse Caesar caesura mark called Chaucer classical prosody coward death died hereafter early texts elision emphasis end-of-the-line pause end-stopped extra syllable eyes feminine ending five stresses five-foot lines fixed accents Hamlet hath Heaven Here's a line iamb iambic pentameter important word instance internal pauses King Lear line endings line metrically Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth metrical unit Milton natural dactyls night Notice number of syllables one-syllable word passage pentameter line plays poetry poets printed probably pronounced prosodists prosody pyrrhic foot pyrrhic-spondee sequence rhymes rhythm Richard Richard III run-on lines scan the line scansion marks SECTION Shakespeare Shakespeare's lines short line sometimes speak speech spelled spoken spondaic spondee stressed and unstressed stressed position sweet syncope system of scansion term thee thou three syllables trisyllabic feet trochaic substitution trochee two-syllable pronunciation unstressed syllables usual versification