Learn how to understand rhythm in poetry with BBC Bitesize KS3 English for students aged 11-14. BBC ... The witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth occasionally speak in a pattern of trochaic tetrameter.

Johnson’s “Snow” is a single ababccdd octet, its primarily trimeter lines disturbed by shifts to tetrameter in lines three and seven. After a brief but potent sketch of the winter day, in which the ...

If you paid any attention at all in high school English, you probably remember iambic pentameter, most likely from reading Shakespeare, and perhaps even other meters like trochaic tetrameter (the ...

In turgid anapestic tetrameter, the poem lauds Trump as “a leader whose courage is true / Whose virtues are solid and long overdue.” ...

In 1791, two women in Dublin corresponded in iambic tetrameter couplets. Henrietta Battier, a published poet later to become a well-known satirist, wrote to Eliza Ryan, praising her poem Contentment.

Learn how to understand rhythm in poetry with BBC Bitesize KS3 English for students aged 11-14. BBC ... The witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth occasionally speak in a pattern of trochaic tetrameter.