- English Poetry Elements - Meter and Foot - Define Rhythm - Related to Music - Beat in Songs - Five Types of Meters - Iambic - Unstressed-Stressed - Example: Control - Trochaic - Stressed-Unstressed - Example: Tai-ge - Anapestic - Two Unstressed-One Stressed - Example: Contra-dict - Dactylic - Stressed-Two Unstressed - Example: Foo-lish-ness - Spondaic - Both Syllables Stressed - Example: Moonstone - Concept of Foot - Metrical Unit - Examples from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 - Iambic Pentameter - Eight Kinds of Feet - Monometer - Dimeter - Trimeter - Tetrameter - Pentameter - Hexameter - Heptameter - Octameter - Practical Examples - Shakespeare - Trochaic Tetrameter - Example: Double, double toil and trouble - Shelley - Anapestic - Dimeter and Trimeter - Example: Like a child from the womb - Review of Concepts - Meter Recap - Iambic, Trochaic, Anapestic, Dactylic, Spondaic - Foot Recap - Monometer to Octameter - Homework Assignment - Analyze Four Poems - Identify Meter and Foot