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A Sonnet in Under 30 Minutes : The Basics of the Onegin Stanza in Iambic Pentameter: (19 minute video)
A Sonnet in Under 30 Minutes - Basics of the Onegin Stanza in Iambic Pentameter
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Masculine and Feminine Rhymes
masculine ends in a stress ( / ), feminine in
a non-stress ( _ )
Anapest
A foot with three
syllables:
non-stressed ( _ )
non-stressed ( _ )
stressed ( / )
Amphibrach
A foot with three
syllables:
non-stress ( _ )
stress ( / )
non-stress ( _ )
Dactyl
A foot with three syllables:
stressed ( / )
non-stressed ( _ )
non-stressed ( _ )
Amphimacer
A foot with three syllables:
stressed ( /)
non-stressed ( _ )
stressed ( /)
Iamb
A foot with two syllables:
non-stressed ( _ )
stressed ( / )
The basic foot for sonnets
and
heroic verse
Iambic Pentameter
penta = five
meter = measures
Iambic Pentameter is five
iambs in a row.
They are the building blocks
of sonnets (in English)
Trochee
A foot with two syllables:
stressed ( / )
non-stressed ( _ )
The opposite of the iamb
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