All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now, And after this next one just a dozen To launch a little ship on love's storm-tossed seas, then only ten more left like rows of beans. How easily it goes unless you get Elizabethan and insist the iambic bongos must be played and rhymes positioned at the ends of lines, one for every station of the cross. But hang on here while we make the turn into the final six where all will be resolved, where longing and heartache will find an end, where Laura will tell Petrarch to put down his pen, take off those crazy medieval tights, blow out the lights, and come at last to bed. Here, we can clearly see the self-reflective tendencies, in which the poet discusses how many more lines he needs to finish a traditional (lines 1-4), he directly comments on the traditional subject-matter of the sonnet, the rejected love of the speaker (alluded to in line 3), he adds an amusing to the normal requirements of rhyme, meter and iambic pentameter, which the poet rejects (lines 5-8), and he adds a direct reference to the turn or volta, in the exact moment when the volta is required in an Italian sonnet. Finally the poet alludes to Laura (the woman to whom Petrarch dedicated his sonnets) and to Petrarch, the inventor of the sonnnet-structure that Collins mimics and alters simultaneously. The subject-matter of this sonnet is the conventional sonnet itself; thus, it is metapoetry. METATHESIS: The transposition of two sounds in speech or spelling.

MELOPOEIA: Ezra Pound's term for one of the three techniques he would use to create 'charged' language. Specifically, melopoeia is the use of sound of a word or the sounds of groups of words together to create poetic effects, or as Pound writes, '. You charge it [a word] by sound or you use groups of words to do this' (37).

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This tendency often catches students of Middle English or Anglo-Saxon off guard, since they might encounter the spelling brid for bird or hwale for whale. METER: A recognizable though varying pattern of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less stress. Compositions written in meter are said to be in verse.

There are many possible patterns of verse. Each unit of stress and unstressed syllables is called a ' foot.' The following examples are culled from M. Abrams' Glossary of Literary Terms, seventh edition, which has more information. You can also to download a PDF handout giving examples of particular types of feet, or for a longer PDF handout discussing meter and scansion.

Dominator pro cracked games. 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the housing, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mousing.' We name a metric line according to the number of ' ' in it. If a line has four feet, it is tetrameter. If a line has five feet, it is pentameter. Six feet, hexameter, and so on.