How does one learn how to identify the metre in a poem? I struggle to distinguish between stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in poems that aren't written in either iambic or trochaic.

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Anonymous Fri Apr 28 15:55:11 2017 No.9439512 [Reply] [Original]

How does one learn how to identify the metre in a poem? I struggle to distinguish between stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in poems that aren't written in either iambic or trochaic.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 16:49:27 2017 No.9439658 >>9439512 Seconded

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 28 18:31:59 2017 No.9439963 Just pick one and stick with it

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