Meter

Rhythm is in everything; even people. As much as someone is convinced that they do not have rhythm, they do. Pay attention to the movement of your chest as you inhale and exhale; this is an example of rhythm. Rhythm can be easily described as a recurring pattern of movement or sound. According to our book, “rhythm can be defined as the particular arrangement of note lengths in a piece of music.” You can arrange any set of sounds rhythmically to create a music piece. Rhythm also has several subcategories which relate to one another to help get a better understanding of music and the making of it. The subcategories are beat, meter, and tempo. Each of these can be put together almost like a step…

1. Carols by Candelight What would Christmas in Geelong be without good ol’ Dennis Walter leading us in carols down by Eastern Beach? Throw in an appearance by Humphrey Bear, some Geelong folks who have gone on to make it big, and a fire works show that wakes up the littlies, and you have a staple on the calendar. 2. Meter Elves A shout out has to go to the unsung heroes of the Christmas season. Meter Elves are not only distinct in their colourful attire, but they pop in change just before the…

Runners take your mark! Get set! GO! No one has ever truly seen themselves through their own eyes. Mirrors exist to reflect our physical appearance but nothing beyond that. Only our actions, words, and ideas could possibly serve to create our identity. The true worth of a person is revealed in those glimpses of light in the midst of adversity and darkness. Those traits that are highly admired are also learned and acquired in those dark moments. It’s in my blood. It has always been there since…

‘The rites of Cousin Vit’ is an elegy in the form of a sonnet. At first the poem seems to simply tell us that it is unbelievable Vit is dead as she was so lively. However upon a closer reading see the voice expressing her displeasure with her place in society through her admiration of Vit. Brooks explores the themes of mortality, vitality and femininity using techniques such as the meter of the poem and even the name of the character alongside the language of the poem in order to convey these…

They both have different length. Stanza 1 has eleven lines and stanza 2 has thirteen lines. The rhyme scheme is as follows: AAABBCCDDEEFFGGHHHII. The poem has an iambic meter because after every stressed syllable there is an unstressed syllable. In line 1 for example: Take this kiss upon the brow! However, not every line measures up to the iambic meter. Poe uses an anapest: the line starts with two unstressed syllables and then follows the iambic meter. In line 2, for example, an anapest is…

“Isolation is the worst possible counselor”(Unamuno). Emily Dickinson describes in her narrative poem,”From Blank to Blank,” a tormented person with loneliness and confinement, no matter what the narrator does to try to avoid it. The speaker admits defeat when she finds no way out of the darkness, because whatever she does makes no difference. Emily Dickinson’s use of meter, metaphors, and dashes in her poetry execute the purpose and theme of this poem. Dickinson’s poem, “From Blank to Blank,”…

A common theme found in sonnets is the theme of love. The meter and rhyme scheme is great to talk about love as the words naturally flow off the tongue. The Italian style was popularized by Francesco Petrarch who was known for writing about his admiration of a woman. The sonnet quickly spread throughout Italy and was formally known as Petrarchan sonnet. The sonnet consisted of two stanzas, the octave (first eight lines) and the sestet (the final six lines), the form totaled 14 lines. The octave…

The meter in the sonnet is in iambic pentameter. But the last line proclaiming that “[she] shall but love thee better after death” (14) is in iambic tetrameter, which signifies the ambiguity of the person and the time of their death. Even though the death is uncertain, she will love him even more intensely in the afterlife. Barrett Browning asks the question “How do[es] [she] love thee” (1) starts the sonnet of with a trochee which initiates the answer to her own question and establishes her…

Often, movement is directly proportional to a person’s level of tranquility. If a person is moving quickly, then that person’s adrenaline levels are generally increased, meaning the person is not calm. On the other hand, a person who is moving very slowly tends to be calm, relaxed or even sedated. The poet uses “movement” in her words, otherwise known as rhythm, to show the relaxed state of the speaker. Utilizing tools such as iambic meter and alliteration, the poet creates the calming rhythm…

Although often overlooked, the form of a poem can be just as important as the words within it. Through careful analysis, a reader can start to piece together different aspects of a poem’s structure and directly relate it back to the overall content. In the poem My Papa’s Waltz, author Theodore Roethke deliberately uses form to create a child-like quality while at the same time mimicking the meter of a waltz, a usually slow and elegant dance that brings two people closer together. Moreover, in…