Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:24 pm Post subject: Meter and Rhyme Scheme in Poetry
raza207: i am raza doing masters in english
literarydiscussions: perhaps you will enjoy my message board
raza207: from pakistan
raza207: i am doing masters in literature
raza207: can i talk to you about some literary terms
literarydiscussions: yes
raza207: what is the role of a metre?
literarydiscussions: in poetry prior to 100 years ago, meter was very important.... poetry in the last 100 years in english has become more free, less rigid in meter, and rhyme scheme
literarydiscussions: ancient greek and latin epics like homer and vergil were in dactylic hexameter...
literarydiscussions: in english, one only rarely sees dactylic hexameter,... for example "This is the forest primeval...."
literarydiscussions: by wordsworth or longfellow, i forget
literarydiscussions: Robert Frost used a lot of iambic pentamer
raza207: i think metre is used to create beauty or regularity
raza207: as it is defined as regular ruthmic language
literarydiscussions: wallace stevens uses rhythms , but not strictly metre
literarydiscussions: tastes change from era to era..... people who like poetry in english in this century prefer things more like wallace stevens, ee cummings...
raza207: ok
literarydiscussions: if you google.com search on poetry meter rhyme scheme you will find much reading, i am certain
raza207: actually discussion effect me more than reading
literarydiscussions: i posted someones english translation of one urdu poet named Jaafre
raza207: ok
literarydiscussions: http://literarydiscussions.myfree.../ftopic631.php&highlight=urdu
literarydiscussions: it is there
literarydiscussions: perhaps you can find the original in urdu
raza207: i was just asking for general
raza207: you are taking it seriously
literarydiscussions: i cannot read your mind, to know how serious you are. i take all questions seriously.
literarydiscussions: i do not waste time.
raza207: i am not wasting time
literarydiscussions: and, I like to go a deeply as possible into any given topic
raza207: i just ask it to know the function of merte
raza207: and you are giving me a lot of details of metre
literarydiscussions: it seemed like thats what you were looking for.... now that you have informed me, i realize that you are not interested in greater detail
raza207: actually i have very short time as my exames are on head
literarydiscussions: then, you must study, and waste little time in chat
raza207: yea
raza207: i was tired and feeling boring
raza207: thats why i am here
literarydiscussions: young students often feel the desire to escape
literarydiscussions: it is difficult to study all the time
raza207: yes but under graduation
literarydiscussions: undergraduate
literarydiscussions: below graduate school and above highschool
raza207: yes
raza207: and now i am in masters
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