[DOC] [TLE] Meter and Foot - Expansive Poetry & Music Online [PAR] There are many meters, but in English they aggregate around two general ... And, 
in English, poetic feet are limited to six: iamb; trochee; spondee; dactyl; anapest; 
and ... impossible (two iambs in one word, light stress on first and third syllables, 
... If not, we'll have to try something else, as for instance "This guy Hayes is a... [DOC] [TLE] Scansion [PAR] Normative syllabic = all lines have the same number of syllables ... Metrical foot = 
one strong stress and its associated unstressed syllables ... Spondaic = DUM 
DUM (two stresses in a foot) (a single foot is a spondee) ... We don't know as we 
begin the poem that we are looking at a particular thing--only by accrued detail 
and... [DOC] [TLE] Iambic Pentameter & Shakespeare's Sonnet 116  PoemShape [PAR] Dec 14, 2008 ... But, in Shakespeare's day, so many variants in so short a space ... Even in 
modern speech we sometimes stress the preposition of  as in: Well ... While 
modern readers might read this first foot as being pyrrhic (two unaccented 
syllables), ... well-enough established, especially in poetry of this period, that we
... [DOC] [TLE] Poetry Terms Flashcards | Quizlet [PAR] a long syllable followed by two short syllables, or one stressed followed by ... a 
metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by ... the 
rhythm established by a poem, and it is usually dependent not only on the 
number of syllables in a ... Spondee (spondaic foot) ... We can't access your 
microphone! [DOC] [TLE] "A Look at Scansion Methods" article by Caleb ... - The Poem Tree [PAR] However, elevating a slightly stressed syllable to a stressed position suggests ... 
Scansion has at least two uses: We use it to study the poetry of other poets, and 
... One is the spondee, and another is the use of many unstressed syllables ... 
However, if you scan the line according to the meter, the falling rhythm can't be 
seen:. [DOC] [TLE] Elements of Poetry [PAR] Many poets like to "play" with the sound of language or offer an emotional insight 
... Like we just said, there can be many different approaches to examining poetry; 
... identifiable structure (i.e. they are free verse), so don't panic if you can't find it! 
.... has five feet [pentameter], and (2) each foot has two syllables with the stress... [DOC] [TLE] If a poem is 11 syllables for the first line but ten for every other line ... [PAR] Metre is more than syllable count; it's also the pattern of stress. 'To be or not to be, 
that is the ... Five 'feet', each with two syllables, the latter one stressed. ... The old 
trick of seeing how many times your chin drops when reading a line slowly ... said 
as one syllable easily enough and adds to the casualness of the poem -- we're... [DOC] [TLE] A. B. Schmidt  An Introduction to Prosody | Genius [PAR] Mar 20, 2014 ... One may still use the school-child method of counting how many ... The stressed 
syllable in a word is represented by an accent mark ... Maybe  but it's open to 
other variations and in fact, we don't want perfect adherence in the feet of a poem 
 it sounds ... iamb-iamb-medial caesura-iamb-spondee-iamb [DOC] [TLE] PoeticMeter - meadhall [PAR] "Sleepy" can only be pronounced with the first syllable stressed, but in many 
cases it ... Try revising the sentence a little and see if you can't make it more or 
less ... This isn't poetry, but it does have a clear meter--"Let's don't, but say we did. 
... In addition to the four kinds of metrical feet, there is also the spondee-- / /, two... [DOC] [TLE] PROSODY [PAR] We say that a work is written in verse, that is,

Question: We can't stress enough that a "spondee" is a poetic foot of this many syllables
Answer: two