ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Meter is a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that defines the rhythm of some poetry. These stress patterns are defined in groupings, called feet, of two or three syllables. A pattern of unstressed-stressed, for instance, is a foot called an iamb.

Detailed explanation-2: -What Is Iambic Meter? Iambic meter is the pattern of a poetic line made up of iambs. An iamb is a metrical foot of poetry consisting of two syllables-an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, pronounced duh-DUH.

Detailed explanation-3: -As you probably know, words in the English languages are composed of a set of stressed and unstressed syllables. In poetry, these syllables are often arranged to create repeating, sonic units-what literary critics call “feet”–that compose the meter of a given poem.

Detailed explanation-4: -Metrical Pattern Scansion is a term for reading a poem while looking carefully at its use of meter to determine what kind of feet make up each line. The main things that scansion looks at are the syllable patterns that make up each foot, and the number of feet in a line.