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.

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.

Here, in tetrameter quatrains with rhymes on the second and fourth lines of each stanza, she positions the father and daughter in an Edenic apple orchard. The father, with his knowledge of good and ...

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.