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Poetic Meter Flashcards

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What is the effect of Iambic Tetrameter?

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  • Rhythmic
  • Repetitive
  • A conversational effect
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What is the effect of Trochaic tetrameter?

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  • Creates an otherworldly, ominous mood
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What poetic meter does Blake use in Introduction (innocence)?

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  • Trochaic tetrameter (sing-song quality)
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What is the effect of Iambic Pentameter?

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  • Simplicity and child like innocence
  • Often a story telling/ballad like quality
  • was typical of poetry at the time
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What poetic meter does Blake use in London?

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  • Iambic tetrameter reflecting controlled nature of city life
  • (not typical of poetry at the time)
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What poetic meter does Blake use in Infant Joy?

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  • Accentual meter (focuses on strong stressors creating a rhythmic pulse)
  • mostly dimeter, sometimes trimeter
  • sing song quality, shows how the child is unrestricted
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What poetic meter does Blake use in On Another Sorrow?

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  • Trochaic Tetrameter
  • Some catalectic lines e.g “Can I see a falling tear?”
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What poetic meter does Blake use in The Little Black Boy?

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  • Iambic Pentameter
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What poetic meter does Blake use in The Echoing Green?

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  • loose pattern of anapestic dimeter
  • light and bouncy rhythm
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What poetic meter does Blake use in Holy Thursday (Innocence)?

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  • Iambic Heptameter
  • (creates rhythmic chanting reflecting the procession of the children)
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What poetic meter does Blake use in The Chimney sweeper (Innocence)?

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  • Iambic Tetrameter but used irregularly reflecting dysfunctional world of the chimney sweep
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What poetic meter does Blake use in Introduction (Experience)

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  • Trochaic tetrameter
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What poetic meter does Blake use in Holy Thursday (Experience)

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  • Mic of Iambic and Trochaic tetrameter
  • Creates a rhythmic procession like pace
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What poetic meter does Blake use in Earth’s answer?

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  • Iambic Tetrameter
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What poetic meter does Blake use in The Chimney sweeper (Experience)?

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  • Trochaic tetrameter
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What poetic meter does Blake use in The Garden of Love?

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  • First two stanzas, loose anapestic dimeter
  • Third stanza, tetrameter and internal rhyme
  • shift allows Blake to draw attention to the true ominous nature of the garden
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What poetic meter does Blake use in The Little Vagabond?

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  • Accentual meter (flexible rhythm, sing song quality)
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What poetic meter does Blake use in Infant Sorrow?

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  • Accentual tetrameter
  • flexible rhythm allows Blake to shape the meter to reflect the changing emotional landscape
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What poetic meter does Blake use in The Little Boy Lost?

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  • Iambic Tetrameter
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What poetic meter does Blake use in The Little Girl Lost?

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  • Quatrain structure AABB rhyme scheme
    (Lyrical feel)

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