Iambic tetrameter is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line consisting of four iambic feet. The word "tetrameter" simply means that there are four feet in the line; iambic tetrameter is a line compris ...
In meter, a caesura (/si???j??r?/ or /s????r?/ (Latin: caedere); alternative spellings are c?sura and cesura) is a complete pause in a line of poetry or in a musical composition. The plura ...
Anapestic tetrameter is a poetic meter that has four anapestic metrical feet per line. Each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. It is sometimes referred to as a "reverse ...
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади?мир Влади?мирович Набо?ков, pronounced ( listen), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 22 April 1899c – 2 July 197 ...
Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pin ...
In linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence. The term is also used for similar patterns of phonetic pr ...
The verses of the Vedas have a variety of different meters. They are grouped by the number of padas in a verse, and by the number of syllables in a pada. Chandas (?????), the study of Vedic meter ...
In the Ottoman Turkish language, the structures of the poetic foot (???? tef'ile) and of poetic meter (??? vezin) were indirectly borrowed from the Arabic poetic tradition through the medium of ...
The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are considered the earliest surviving examples of Latin literature and are estimated to h ...
In Greek and Latin poetry, a choriamb /?k?ri??mb/ is a metron (prosodic foot) consisting of four syllables in the pattern long-short-short-long (— ? ? —), that is, a trochee alternating with a ...
A pyrrhic (from Greek πυρρ?χιο? purrichios, πυρρ?χη purrichē) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. It consists of two unaccented, short syllables. It is also known as a dibrach.P ...
In poetry, a spondee is a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables, as determined by syllable weight in classical meters, or two stressed syllables, as determined by stress in modern meters. The ...
An anapaest (also spelled anap?st or anapest, also called antidactylus) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative meters it consists of two short syllables followed by a lon ...
A trochee /?tro?ki?/ or choree, choreus, is a metrical foot used in formal poetry consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one. Trochee comes from the Greek τροχ??, trokhó ...
Early life and education Birthplace of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Portland, Maine, c. 1910. The house was demolished in 1955.Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807, to Stephen Longfellow and Zilpah ...
