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AP English Literature: Meter in Successive Couplets 12 Views
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Description:
Written in a single stanza of 24 lines, the poem's successive couplets are structured according to what kind of meter?
Transcript
- 00:00
Sorry Okay More AP English lit for you a couple
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more here Here we go written in a single stands
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up twenty four lines The poems Successive couplets are structured
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according to what kind of meter European system otherwise would
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be a kind of yard Well let's think about this
Full Transcript
- 00:34
Though the poem may look tightly structured with those rhyming
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couplets there isn't a consistent meter which makes it free
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verse writes like a rapper The speaker goes wherever the
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metrical winds take him so that's it It's e free
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verse Iambic pentameter is very common but it's not used
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in this poem So get rid of egg and the
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same goes for I am big Try neater B another
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type of meter and the Rondo D which is actually
- 00:58
a poetic form like a sonnet or a villain L
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common measure as in sea there is a four line
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rhyming stanzas which also doesn't apply here All those come
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