For instance, Robert Frost, one of the most popular modern poets, wrote poems in blank verse.
In traditional poetry, poets must compose poems that comply with a particular metrical pattern.
The metrical pattern is developed by counting the stressed and unstressed syllables on each line. The poets of Europe, Canada, and United states use accentual-syllabic meter. In accentual-syllabic meter, both the stressed and unstressed syllables are counted. A poet who uses syllabic meter develops a pattern by having the same number of syllables on each line of the poem. In syllabic meter, the syllables are counted. In accentual meter, the stresses are counted and the syllables are variable. Meter is Greek for “measure.” In English poetry, poets use three common types of meter. In this article, I’ll discuss meter and rhythm. Furthermore, a good poem includes rhythm.
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And so, if you intend on using rhythm in your free verse poetry, you ought to understand meter.Īs well, all good modern and contemporary poets know how to use rhythm and meter. Another reason is that meter is part of rhythm. On occasion, contemporary poets write poems in one of the traditional forms, such as a sonnet or blank verse or epic or elegy.
Frost wrote in blank verse, a traditional form, which requires each line to be written in iambic pentameter and have no rhyme. And yet, some modern poets, such as Robert Frost, have used traditional forms to compose their poetry. Unlike traditional poetry, poets who write free verse aren’t forced to use a particular metrical pattern.
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