iambic pentameter

What causes stress?

• being under lots of pressure.
• facing big changes.
• worrying about something.
• not having much or any control over the outcome of a situation.
• having responsibilities that you’re finding overwhelming.
• not having enough work, activities or change in your life.
• times of uncertainty.

Iambic meter is the pattern of a poetic line made up of iambs. An iamb is a metrical foot of poetry consisting of two syllables—an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, pronounced duh-DUH. An iamb can be made up of one word with two syllables or two different words.

A coupled rhyme is a two-line stanza that rhymes following the rhyme scheme AA BB CC, or a similar dual rhyming scheme. The rhymes themselves are referred to as rhyming couplets. Shakespeare’s sonnets end with rhyming couplets, such as this one: William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18”

Rhyme scheme is a poet’s deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza. The rhyme scheme, or pattern, can be identified by giving end words that rhyme with each other the same letter. The first line ends in the word ‘star’, and the second line ends in the word ‘are’. …

Simply put, a poems pattern is, ‘the accurate arrangement and development of material (in both visual and aural form) components of words in specific repetitive or serial forms are a means to create a poems structure. ‘ Through a mingling of elements from sound and visual, a poem is given its structure.

1. Try to figure out the meaning of the poem.
2. Imagery is a common technique used by poets to get their meaning across.
3. Look for symbols.
4. Look at the poet’s choice of words.
5. Determine the voice and tone of voice of the poem.
6. Determine if the poem has a storyline.
7. Look for a rhyme scheme.
8. Determine the poem’s structure.