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I'm having a hard time picking up the stressed and unstressed parts of words and lines in a poem, or in general.
How do you guys develop an "ear" for these things? Is there some rule?
I'm looking for a book to help me in this, or perhaps some direction. Any ideas?

>> No.14718266

Listen to poems read by half-decent readers on Youtube and see what they do

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14718368

You take your fancy pants anthology and you scale your nearest building. Shout out: This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.--Do it. Do it right now.

>> No.14718375 [DELETED] 

>>14718224
read it the way it sounds good

>> No.14718381

>>14718224
read it how it sounds good

>> No.14718397

>>14718266
This anon is helpful.
Recordings of poets reading their own poetry. Checking word stresses in the dictionary. Reading poems out loud. Recording yourself. Use scansion from time to time

>> No.14718593

>>14718224
Weren't you angloniggers taught what's word stress when you were in school? This exact same thread gets posted every week.