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Please teach me about poetic meter, /lit/!

>> No.8983055

One, two, three and to the four / Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre is at the door /

>> No.8983072

>>8983027
iambically
>to SPEAK like THIS
Trochaic
>SPEAK-ing THIS way

>> No.8983177
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8983177

>>8983055
kek
>>8983072
thanks m8, watching a tutorial right now but I'd like a crash course aswell, what type of meter is used for what type of poem etc

>> No.8983184

I don't know how to read poetry, my dude. Sorry.

>> No.8983230

>>8983177
iambic is by far the most common for english poems, with Trochaic being the same meter but starting on the stress. putting them together can either show itself as a quasi-spondee
>SPEAK-SPEAK
or as a pyrric in the middle
>SPEAK-(ing a)-GAIN
The other forms are hard to write well in english because of the way our stress patterns form around the important words in a sentence
Datylic meter (which is different in english than Homeric Greek) i find sound readily galloping
>GAL-lop-ing GAL-lop-ing IN to the NIGHT
Anapestic is the reverse of that
>to the LIGHT, to the LIGHT
Ambphrach is the weird one that is p much only used in silly verse
>WHAT the FUCK, FUCK the POOR

>> No.8983259

It's archaic, arbitrary bullshit that really means nothing and was only useful until the invention of the printing press, when paper was scarce and most literary stories and political messages had to be passed down through plays, songs, recitals, and oral tradition. Modern poets use it to pretend like poetry is deep and has structure, nobody gives a flying fuck about the number or iambs in the line and where you place your line breaks.

>> No.8983270

>>8983259
why are you on a lit board if you don't read?

>> No.8983275
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8983275

Okay I think I've got the hang of it now! I know that there's plenty of poetry geeks around here but who's willing to spoonfeed me some nice poems?

>>8983230
thanks lad this was useful

>> No.8983311

>>8983275
>Okay I think I've got the hang of it now!
You don't, you stupid pseud. You've done about 10 minutes of spoonfed research and think you know jack shit. You're the reason people hate millennial cucks.

>> No.8983317

>>8983311
Take it with a grain of salt you whingy fag