Vincent Millay's ' Moriturus' for iambic, despite the paucity of actual iambs: For example, one misguided soul mistook Edna St. If a poem doesn't have many more of this rhythm than facsimiles of it then we've got the wrong base rhythm. This brings us to our first key word: 'Simply'. The rain | in Spain | falls main|ly on | the plain. Re view market spectacle re visit inter ruptДЇor example, here we see a lineВ№ of iambic verse: Iambic Trochaic Dactylic Amphibrachic AnapesticДe-DUM DUM-de DUM-de-de de-DUM-de de-de-DUM ' We Real Cool' by Gwendolyn's Brooks is in bacchic monometer), English verse is written in one of five cadences: articles, prepositions, conjunctions, etc.) tend to be unaccented. What syllables are stressed? Among monosyllabic words nouns and verbs tend to be accented, pronouns and modifiers are a coin toss and other types (e.g. Don't let this confuse or intimidate you, though it gives you the flexibility to use whichever enunciation is more convenient for you. 'Little fashion faker' might be anywhere from three to six syllables. Semisyllables such as '-le', '-ion' or '-er', lacking a drawn out vowel sound, may or may not count as syllables. Some syllables will be mashed together, such that 'naive' can be one syllable (' elision') or two (' hiatus'). In speaking of 'syllables' we'll often use the speaker's definition rather than the dictionary's. We'll be counting either stresses or, mostly, patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables called 'feet'. Indeed, it can be taught to squirrels and summed up in four words: How difficult is this to learn? Too tough for most MFAs and English graduates, it seems, but in truth, not vexing at all. Scansion is 'the metrical analysis of verse'. 'There is no escape from metre there is only mastery.'

Line scansion