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What is rhythm? What is meter?
Not to be to gnostic here, although, after reading the chapter on rhythm and meter I had a pretty serious moment. I decided to throw on Rhythm is a Dancer to feel out the beat and the music and payed attention to the rhythm in All that was taking place in the experience. My understanding brought me to the conclusion that we are Rhythm and it’s not our personal Rhythm, it’s God’s Rhythm and we are just a vibration in God’s eternal Rhythm. The most simplistic way I have come to think of rhythm is the vibration of things moving in a direction. Meter would be the length of the occurrence of the vibration without interruption with a number of spikes (emphasized vowels) along the way.
Identify the metrical pattern (using either the terminology your text introduces or the conventional Greek terminology, if you have been introduced to it before and are comfortable with it) of these two poems:https://www.paulreverehouse.org/longfellows-poem/ (just look at the first stanza of this one) and https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-verse
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LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear
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Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
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On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
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Hardly a man is now alive
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Who remembers that famous day and year.
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They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
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They may not mean to, but they do.
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They fill you with the faults they had
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And add some extra, just for you.
In what way(s) does meter serve to impact the development of content in each poem (you might think of this in terms of tone; theme, the ideas the poem expresses; or diction, the words it draws on)?
I feel meter impacts the reader or listener by spiking their attention more or less throughout the poem. The emphasis of different vowels seems to be how a Poet wants to have the reader feel their message. Even in regular speech, for instance: I hAve to gO to the bAthroom. With such a statement, I want my listener to know what and where most importantly. Therefore have, go and bathroom all contain an emphasized vowel.
Do exercise 3 on pages 66-68.
The lads consist of what looks like nine stanzas which vary in metrical form. Stanza (i) has 4 and 5 emphasized vowels; it may be called iambic pentameter. Stanza (ii) seems to be all over the place and doesn’t have a constant meter. Stanza (iii) has what looks like mostly iambic pentameter and goes back to 4 or 5 emphasized vowels. Stanza (iv) has what looks like between 3 and 4 stressed vowels and is iambic pentameter. Stanza (v) has what looks like 4 stressed vowels per line and (vi) has 3 to 5 stressed vowels.
I think the difference is due to the Poets intention of having the reader / listener feel some parts more than others. The 1st stanza is a really cool rhythm followed by a more dull stanza.
