Wednesday, May 11, 2011.

1) Rhythm and meter: Copy on a sheet of paper and scan the verse "Now I lay me..." and count the iambs identifying lines two and four as iambic tetrameter.
Metrical Lines per feet in each line:
monometer = one foot per line
dimeter = two feet per line
trimeter = three feet per line
tetrameter = four feet per line
pentameter = five feet per line
hexameter = six feet per line
heptameter = seven feet per line
octometer = eight feet per line

Period 2/4: Scan "Hickory, dickory dock..." define as dactylic dimeter.
Scan "Twinkle, twinkle little star..." identify lines as trochaic trimeter.

Complete "Elements of Poetry" and "The Wilderness Tamed" reviewing

stanza: division in a poem
form: How the poem appears on paper: How many stanzas of how many lines?
rhyme scheme: The recurring end rhyme patterns in a poem: abcb, abba, abab, etc.

Turn in notes for a grade.