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<DIV>In a message dated 9/23/2003 9:32:37 PM Central Standard Time, edreese@m7bedlam.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Love it!<BR><BR>But, er, this Iambic stuff has me molto confused.... Could you explain it to me? Anybody?<BR><BR>Esther</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV> Words have a certain rhythm A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. For example the word "Honor" is a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. HON or. or HAPP y. In English a line of verse is often written so that the stressed and unstressed syllables alternate in a regular pattern. The most common pattern is called Iambic. An Iamb is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. One set is called an Iambic foot. A line of iambic verse can be made up any number of Iambic feet. There are different names for the number of feet. </DIV>
<DIV> A line of Iambic Pentameter is a line that consist of Five Iambic feet. For Example.</DIV>
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<DIV> The DREAMS that DRIVE our LIVES and LIFT our HEARTS.</DIV>
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<DIV> Iambic Pentameter is very common in English poetry. </DIV>
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<DIV>Ballad Verse is alternating lines of Iambic Tetrameter and Iambic Trimeter, that is alternating lines of Four Iambic Feet and Three Iambic Feet. Such as this.</DIV>
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<DIV>I wish we'd used a few more nails,<BR>And drank a lot less mead.<BR></DIV>
<DIV> It's late so I don't really have time to go into it in more detail. </DIV>
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<DIV>Check out the following site for more information.</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_meter.html">http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_meter.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Robert</DIV>
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