![]() ![]() When you read the line, you should stress the red ones.Įach “Feet” is composed of one unstressed and one stressed syllable. These metrical units or Feet make up the rhythm (or beat) of poetry. ![]() The line has five metrical units or “Feet”as shown in the Figure 1 in green boxes. Now, let’s consider a line from one of his sonnets as shown below. Now let’s describe this with an example.īefore going to the example, note that you will experience rhythm when you read the poem out loud correctly. These units are called mertical units or feet. They are paired in five groups or unit each comprising of an unstressed and a stressed ones. Shakespeare has used a specific pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in his sonnets to create the rhythm.Įach line in his sonnet has 10 syllables. Rhythm refers to the naturally occurring patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. How has Shakespeare composed rhythm in his sonnet? Rhythm and Meter The Song of Hiawatha Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ![]()
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