Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Diiamb Foot
Diiamb is a metrical foot used in metered poetry. It consists of (four syllables) a short syllable, long syllable short syllable and a long syllable. Look at the diiamb as two iambs in qualitative meter measuring a single foot; thus representing an unstressed syllable, stressed syllable, unstressed syllable and a stressed syllable as shown in Table above.
In verses 1, 7, and 12 of the first stanza of the poem “Ode to Sweet Revenge - Ground Zero Never” shown below:
1 He is cleaning the House; they want it done with lightning speed
7 Forget the two wars with hidden goals that tanked their economy;
12 So here’s the beef feeding my head on a tropical island
When scanned shows where the Diiamb foot appears. Take a look.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Diacritical Marks for Tetrasyllables
Now there are quite a number of diacritical marks associated with Tetrasyllables and their corresponding foot types. These are summarized in the Table below: