- published: 02 Sep 2013
- views: 55458
In poetry, metre (meter in US spelling) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alternating in a particular order. The study and the actual use of metres and forms of versification are both known as prosody. (Within linguistics, "prosody" is used in a more general sense that includes not only poetic metre but also the rhythmic aspects of prose, whether formal or informal, that vary from language to language, and sometimes between poetic traditions.)
The metre of most poetry of the Western world and elsewhere is based on patterns of syllables of particular types. The familiar type of metre in English-language poetry is called qualitative metre, with stressed syllables coming at regular intervals (e.g. in iambic pentameters, usually every even-numbered syllable). Many Romance languages use a scheme that is somewhat similar but where the position of only one particular stressed syllable (e.g. the last) needs to be fixed. The metre of the old Germanic poetry of languages such as Old Norse and Old English was radically different, but was still based on stress patterns.
Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Early poems evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from more objectively informative, prosaic forms of writing. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more generally regarded as a fundamental creative act employing language.
Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke emotive responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations. Similarly figures of speech such as metaphor, simile and metonymy create a resonance between otherwise disparate images—a layering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived. Kindred forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme or rhythm.
A revised look at rhythm and meter in poetry, how to identify them, and why they matter in literature. Enjoy!
On Shmoop: http://www.shmoop.com/introduction-to-poetry-collins/rhyme-form-meter.html Without meter in poetry, beat poets wouldn't have a beat. And then they'd just be oddballs standing up on stage, saying random stuff for seemingly no reason whatsoever. Come to think of, that's not too far from the definition of a beat poet anyway.
In this episode, we delve deeper into rhythm by exploring its molecular level, syllables. The units of measurement used are a foot and a meter. Poetry Defined : Episode Four (4) "Foot & Meter" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE for more Films, Livestreams, & Podcast https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=advocateofwordz Advocate of Wordz is also on... Twitter - https://twitter.com/advocateofwordz @advocateofwordz Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/advocateofwordz Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/advocateofwordz @advocateofwordz Official Website - http://www.advocateofwordz.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well known as an actor, presenter, author and comedian, Stephen Fry is also a poetry enthusiast, and has written a guide to writing poetry entitled The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within. In the video Stephen will talk us through the technicalities of poetry, looking at rhythm, metre, form, rhyme, enjambment and caesura. We’ll also hear about how form can help poets to shape and express emotion, and why it is important to read poetry slowly, and to read it aloud. Find out more about this course on https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/literature/
(3) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to analyze the structure or prosody (e.g., meter, rhyme scheme) and graphic elements (e.g., line length, punctuation, word position) in poetry.-- Created using PowToon -- Free sign up at http://www.powtoon.com/ . Make your own animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video. PowToon's animation temp...
A fragment of the film "Dead Poets Society", Understanding Poetry, by Dr. J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D. "To fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme, and figures of speech. Then ask two questions: One, how artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered, and two, how important is that objective. Question one rates the poem's perfection, question two rates its importance. And once these questions have been answered, determining a poem's greatness becomes a relatively simple matter. If the poem's score for perfection is plotted along the horizontal of a graph, and its importance is plotted on the vertical, then calculating the total area of the poem yields the measure of its greatness." I don't own the rights to this video. For educational purposes only.
Watch more How to Write Fiction & Poetry videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/297008-How-to-Write-a-Poem-in-Iambic-Pentameter The most common meter in poetry, iambic pentameter is famously associated with William Shakespeare. Here's how you can rhyme like a modern-day bard. Step 1: Know feet Know that an iamb is a rhythmic unit called a foot and is a combination of unstressed and stressed syllables. One word with two syllables, like "instead," could be an iamb, or two monosyllabic words could be an iamb, like "she wants." Step 2: Know meter Understand that pentameter is a meter that means the iamb is repeated five times. So iambic pentameter is a line of poetry with five iambs. Tip Use this famous line from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night as a guide: "If music be the food of love, play o...
A revised look at rhythm and meter in poetry, how to identify them, and why they matter in literature. Enjoy!
On Shmoop: http://www.shmoop.com/introduction-to-poetry-collins/rhyme-form-meter.html Without meter in poetry, beat poets wouldn't have a beat. And then they'd just be oddballs standing up on stage, saying random stuff for seemingly no reason whatsoever. Come to think of, that's not too far from the definition of a beat poet anyway.
In this episode, we delve deeper into rhythm by exploring its molecular level, syllables. The units of measurement used are a foot and a meter. Poetry Defined : Episode Four (4) "Foot & Meter" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE for more Films, Livestreams, & Podcast https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=advocateofwordz Advocate of Wordz is also on... Twitter - https://twitter.com/advocateofwordz @advocateofwordz Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/advocateofwordz Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/advocateofwordz @advocateofwordz Official Website - http://www.advocateofwordz.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well known as an actor, presenter, author and comedian, Stephen Fry is also a poetry enthusiast, and has written a guide to writing poetry entitled The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within. In the video Stephen will talk us through the technicalities of poetry, looking at rhythm, metre, form, rhyme, enjambment and caesura. We’ll also hear about how form can help poets to shape and express emotion, and why it is important to read poetry slowly, and to read it aloud. Find out more about this course on https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/literature/
(3) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to analyze the structure or prosody (e.g., meter, rhyme scheme) and graphic elements (e.g., line length, punctuation, word position) in poetry.-- Created using PowToon -- Free sign up at http://www.powtoon.com/ . Make your own animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video. PowToon's animation temp...
A fragment of the film "Dead Poets Society", Understanding Poetry, by Dr. J. Evans Pritchard, Ph.D. "To fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme, and figures of speech. Then ask two questions: One, how artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered, and two, how important is that objective. Question one rates the poem's perfection, question two rates its importance. And once these questions have been answered, determining a poem's greatness becomes a relatively simple matter. If the poem's score for perfection is plotted along the horizontal of a graph, and its importance is plotted on the vertical, then calculating the total area of the poem yields the measure of its greatness." I don't own the rights to this video. For educational purposes only.
Watch more How to Write Fiction & Poetry videos: http://www.howcast.com/videos/297008-How-to-Write-a-Poem-in-Iambic-Pentameter The most common meter in poetry, iambic pentameter is famously associated with William Shakespeare. Here's how you can rhyme like a modern-day bard. Step 1: Know feet Know that an iamb is a rhythmic unit called a foot and is a combination of unstressed and stressed syllables. One word with two syllables, like "instead," could be an iamb, or two monosyllabic words could be an iamb, like "she wants." Step 2: Know meter Understand that pentameter is a meter that means the iamb is repeated five times. So iambic pentameter is a line of poetry with five iambs. Tip Use this famous line from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night as a guide: "If music be the food of love, play o...
This video Jukebox contains 41 Nazm written and recited by none other than Gulzar Saab Page 1 :: (00:00 - 12:27) ♪ Rooh Dekhi Hai Kabhi - 00:00 ♪ Pehle Se Kya Likha Thha - 01:40 ♪ Tere Aankhon Se Hi - 04:11 ♪ Khalaaon Mein Tairate Jazeeron Mein - 05:10 ♪ Sunehari Koonje Jab - 06:10 ♪ Ek Lams Halka Subuk - 06:57 ♪ Khol Kar Bahon Ke Do - 07:55 ♪ Kabhi Kabhi Jab Main Baith Jaata Hoon - 08:46 ♪ Bas Ek Hi Sur Mein Ek Hi Laya Pe - 11:18 ♪ Kuch Aise Aakar Gira Hai - 12:27 Page 2 :: (12:50 - 23:11) ♪ Raat Bhar Sard Hava Chalti Rahi - 12:50 ♪ Takiye Pe Tere Voh Sar Ka - 14:34 ♪ Jaise Jhanna Ke Chatakh Jaaye - 15:06 ♪ Worth Jo Scent Hai Mitti Ka - 15:35 ♪ Kal Ki Raat Giri Thhi Shabnam - 18:25 ♪ Do Sondhe Sondhe Se Jism - 19:16 ♪ Sirf Ehsaas Ke Paas Ho Tum - 20:11 ♪ Badi Udaas Hai Vaadi - 21:14 ♪ H...
This video will be taken off shortly since the record company has caused the video to be muted in the name of copyright. It is the translations of Sant Tulsidas lyrics that was attracting viewers ... i am really sorry that crass commercialization in the name of Lord Shri Rama is the reason I have to pull this down! A chaupai, is Indian poetry that uses a metre of four syllables. Famous chaupais include those of poet-saint Tulsidas in his classical text Ramcharitamanas and Hanuman Chalisa Every choupai written in it is holy like a mantra. Tulsidas 1532–1623, Sung by Kumar Vishu English translation, Ramesh Krishnakumar Oct 2016
Stephen Fry's own experience with manic depression lead him to create a documentary about the condition. Stephen Fry talks about having bipolar disorder, his openess and intelligence are legendary. There are many great people who suffer similar disorders and . Actors Adam Deacon and Stephen Fry have been discussing what life is like with bipolar disorder, a condition that causes extreme mood swings. Fry told . In Week 1 of the course, we spoke to Stephen Fry about some of the more technical features of poetry like rhyme and metre. Here, Stephen offers us an insight .
Lord Shiva Shivananda Lahari - Sri Aadhi Shankaracharya's Shivananda Lahari Shivananda Lahari (IAST Śivānanda Lahiri) is a devotional hymn composed by Adi Shankara, the 8th-century Advaita philosopher, on Shiva. It literally means Wave of Auspicious Bliss. It consists of one hundred stanzas of Sanskrit poetry in various chandas (metres). It was composed by Adi Shankara while staying in Srisailam, a pilgrimage town, in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh. It begins with an ode to Mallikarjuna and Bhramarambika, the deities at Srisailam. MY3 SONGS SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS https://www.youtube.com/user/MY3SONGS?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on GOOGLE+ https://plus.google.com/105775674240707506080/videos MY3 SONGS PLAYLISTS https://www.youtube.com/user/MY3SONGS/playlists Follow on FACEBOOK ...
Angel of the library, Genie of the pen Write the demon on the page and cross him out again Mythopoeia, or the making of myths, plugs the magician into a stream of narrative, and the results we can look forward to depend on the poetry of the myth we are writing. In dreams, visions and urges, the unconscious speaks communicates in the language of poetry. We call out to our gods and familiars, and the world around us answers with rhyme. Synchronicity falls in perfect metre if we stress the right syllables, and even our failures have their own peculiar signature.
After releasing a series of highly regarded prog albums (Mirage, The Snow Goose, Moonmadness), Camel suddenly found themselves struggling to evolve their suddenly outdated sound due to the punk movement. Moving between their prog style and a new more pop-influenced style Camel could never manage to reach the popularity or quality of their earlier albums, before breaking up in 1984. The band would again resurface in 1991 with a different line-up, returning to their prog roots. However, by this time the damage had been done, and despite the consistently good quality of these later releases even many Camel fans ignore them and only listen to the 70’s albums. 1999’s Rajaz is arguably the best of these later albums.The title of the album comes from the name of an ancient type of Arabic poetr...
Valmiki is celebrated as the harbinger-poet in Sanskrit literature. The epic Ramayana, dated variously from 5th century BCE to first century BCE, is attributed to him, based on the attribution in the text itself. He is revered as the Ādi Kavi, which translates to First Poet, because he is said to have invented shloka (i.e. first verse or epic metre), which set the base and defined the form to Sanskrit poetry. The Uttara Kanda tells the story of Valmiki's early life, as a highway robber named Ratnakar, who used to rob people after killing them. Once, the robber tried to rob the divine sage Narada for the benefit of his family. Narada asked him if his family would share the sin he was incurring due to the robbery. The robber replied positively, but Narada told him to confirm this with his f...
Valmiki is celebrated as the harbinger-poet in Sanskrit literature. The epic Ramayana, dated variously from 5th century BCE to first century BCE, is attributed to him, based on the attribution in the text itself. He is revered as the Ādi Kavi, which translates to First Poet, because he is said to have invented shloka (i.e. first verse or epic metre), which set the base and defined the form to Sanskrit poetry. The Uttara Kanda tells the story of Valmiki's early life, as a highway robber named Ratnakar, who used to rob people after killing them. Once, the robber tried to rob the divine sage Narada for the benefit of his family. Narada asked him if his family would share the sin he was incurring due to the robbery. The robber replied positively, but Narada told him to confirm this with his f...
This selection of poems has many favourites from authors such as Edward Lear and Robert Browning, as well as less well known authors. We hope you enjoy the poems. Poetic Duets, Poetry, Audiobook Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic[1][2][3] qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning. Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Early poems evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Ancient attempts to define poetr...
The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolary, loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. A revised edition appeared in 1787. It was an important novel of the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement in literature. The Sorrows Of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Complete Audiobook Goethe, 24 years old at the time, finished Werther in six weeks of intensive writing in January–March 1774.[1] It instantly put him among the foremost international literary celebrities, and remains the best known of his works to the general public.[1][2] Towards the end of Goethe's life, a personal visit to Weimar became a crucial stage in any young man's Grand Tour of Eur...