The Poetry Handbook
Subtitle: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 2, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780198711544
First sentence: This is analysed as five feet, each foot consisting of an unstressed beat following by a stressed beat; I have a separated the feet with a vertical slash: When I I do COUNT I the CLOCK I that TELLS I the TIME This kind of foot is called an iamb (pronounced e-AMB) and there are five of them, so the line is an iambic pentameter (from the Greek word [pente], meaning 'five').