Meter: measure of time, beat, and rhythm, by counting feet (syllables) in a line

One Mono- Number of feet in a line:

Two Di-
Three Tri-
Four Tetra-
Five Penta-
Six Hexa-
Seven Hepta-
Eight Octa-
Nine Nona-

Foot: a unit of meter in a poem, each syllable is either stressed or unstressed; combine
two together, from left to right.
U = unstressed / = stressed
Types of feet:
iambic foot – U/ (EX: be-low, de-light)
trochaic foot - /U (EX: ne-ver, hap-py)
spondaic foot - / / (EX: heartbreak, childhood)
pyrrhic foot – UU Rare and usually part of another foot
How to measure in a Shakespearian sonnet:
1. the first syllable is unstressed
2. the next is stressed (iambic)
3. and so on until you’ve marked all ten syllables in the line.
4. Make a vertical line around each of the feet ( I U / I ).
5. You will have five feet per line; another word for five is penta (like shapes:
pentagon), so you have penta-meter or pentameter.
6. Label the meter:
a. What type of feet do you have? – (U /) iam’s
b. How many per line? – (five) penta-
i. The answer is: iambic pentameter.
Rhyme: repetition of end-of-the-word vowel and consonant sound
End Rhyme: last word in a line rhymes with another last word.
Internal Rhyme: rhyming within or inside the poem, not at the end of a line
Assonance: repetition of vowel sound
Consonance: repetition of consonant sound
Onomatopoeia: words that sound like their definition (example: swish, plop, zing)
Alliteration: repetition of beginning sounds of words anywhere within the poem.
(example: Brom Bones bench pressed boney Ichabod like a bratwurst.)
Rhyme Scheme: end rhyme pattern. To find it, look at the last word of each line; line
one is labeled A, any other lines that rhyme with A are also labeled A; if line two does not
rhyme with line one, it is labeled B, and any other lines that rhyme with it are also
labeled B; continue until the whole poem is labeled. (example, reading down: ABAB
CBCB CDCD)