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How To Write In Meter 101

12/6/2026
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-What is meter?

-10 Reasons to write in meter

-Kinds of meter (Accentual, Syllabic, Parellelist, Quantitative, Accentual-Syllabic)

-Kinds of feet (Iamb, Trochee, Anapest, Amphibrach, Dactyl)

-“Junk” by Richard Wilbur

-“Considering the Snail” by Thom Gunn

-KJV Psalm 23

-Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare

-“The Tyger” by William Blake

-“The Destruction of Sennacherib” by Lord Byron

-“O Where Are You Going?” by W.H. Auden

-Evangeline, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“To An Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman

-Speech stress vs. Relative stress (accent)

-The importance of “framing” in scansion

-Rhythmic modulation

-Common substitutions (feminine endings, reversed feet, acephalous lines)

-“All the Fun’s In How You Say A Thing” by Timothy Steele

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List of the most common metrical feet: 
Iamb: weak-STRONG (u /)
Trochee: STRONG-weak (/ u)
Anapest: weak-weak-STRONG (u u /)
Amphibrach: weak-STRONG-weak (u / u)
Dactyl: STRONG-weak-weak (/ u u)
Cretic: STRONG-weak-STRONG (/ u /)
Pyrrhic: weak-weak (u u)
Spondee: STRONG-STRONG (/ /)

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