Iambic tetrameter and rhyming couplet

Literary terms and examples

1. iambic tetrameter Iambic – a foot of poetry that follows the pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable Tetrameter – a line written in tetrameter (tetra = 4) will have four feet, or eight syllables.

2. exist b elong running p redict flower away Iambic, or Not? That Is The Question.

3. If ever two were one, then surely we.   If ever man were loved by wife, then thee; The only news I know  Is bulletins all day  From Immortality . I wandered, lonely as a cloud  That floats on high o’er dales and hills  When, all at once, I saw a crowd  A host of golden daffodils.  Tetrameter?

4. A part of poetry defined as a complete thought written in two lines that end with similar sounds . "I have the measles and the mumps, a gash, a rash and purple bumps." - Shel Silverstein "For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds." - Sonnet 94, William Shakespeare rhyming couplet