Poetry Scansion

the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. (the rhythm)

• beat
• meter
• poetry
• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem. 

• verse
• alliteration
• stanza
• enjambment

anapest or anapestic

• unstressed stressed
• stressed unstressed
• unstressed unstressed stressed
• stressed unstressed unstressed

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.K.5

trochee or trochaic 

• unstressed stressed
• stressed unstressed
• unstressed unstressed stressed
• stressed unstressed unstressed

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

dactyl or dactyllic

• unstressed stressed
• stressed unstressed
• unstressed stressed stressed
• stressed unstressed unstressed

Iambic

• unstressed stressed
• stressed unstressed
• unstressed unstressed stressed
• stressed unstressed unstressed

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one ( / u )

• anapest
• dactyl
• iamb
• trochee

Tags

CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

a metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one ( u / )

• anapest
• dactyl
• iamb
• trochee

Tags

CCSS.RL. 6.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllables followed by two unstressed one ( / UU )

• anapest
• dactyl
• iamb
• trochee

a metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one

• anapest
• dactyl
• iamb
• trochee

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.5