Meter and rhythm

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Meter and rhythm
Iambics
Trochaics
Anapestics
Dactylics
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Iambics de DAH

John Clare
Oscar Wilde
John Keats
Shakespeare
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Oscar Wilde (from The Ballad of Reading Gaol)
Voice only.
Voice with drum track.
Drum track only.
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John Clare(from The Sand Martins Nest)

• Spoken word only.
• Spoken and drum.
• Vocoder (transients removed).

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John Keats(from To Autumn)

• Read poetically
• Read with caesura mid line
• Read without any stresses
• Read as prose

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William Shakespeare(from King Lear)

• Spoken word only.
• Stressed syllables.
• Unstressed syllables.
• With drum on stressed.

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Trochaics DAH de
Sounds
Longfellow
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Sounds

• The drum pattern here plays a 2/4 musical
  pattern with the stress on the first beat as
  in a Trochee.
• The voice here spells out a trochaic (DAH
  de). Note how much longer the DAH is

drum
voice
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Anapestics de de DAH
Sounds
Byron
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Sounds

• The drum pattern here plays out a 3/4
  musical bar, with the stress on the last beat
  an anapest.
• The drum here is playing an anapestic as
  you would hear it spoken note how different it
  is the the musical 3/4 time above.

drum
drum2
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Dactylics
Sounds
Shelley
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Sounds

• The drum pattern here plays a 3/4 musical
  pattern with the stress on the first beat a
  Dactyl.
• The drum plays a Dactylic line, but as it
  would be spoken. A less rigid feel to the
  musical pattern above.

drum
drum2
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Round up

• Compare the four main metrical feet found in
  English Prosody

Iamb
Trochee
Anapest
Dactyl