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Another good poem to hone your reading ear is Elizabeth Bishop's famous villanelle 'One Art.' For more on Milton's meter, see our 'What is Blank Verse?' video. The poem is suitable for metrical as well as rhyme analysis on the order of those discussed in the video and the 'What is Rhyme?' video.

Robert Herrick's 17th century poem 'Delight in Disorder' offers many opportunities to read for sonic disorders. In the meantime, good luck, stay healthy, and happy reading. If you have any ideas, I hope you’ll share them with me in the comments section below. If you can spot the metrical problem, you can now ask WHY Milton might have chosen to break the meter at that specific moment. Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tastīrought Death into the World, and all our woe” “Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit While the poem is written in blank verse iambic pentameter, see if you can spot the moment where the meter breaks in these opening lines: Consider the start of John Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost,” which tells the story of Adam and Eve’s exile from the garden of Eden. These moments are often good places to build out an interpretation, because when we spot them, we can ask WHY the meter breaks at that place and what that sonic dissonance might be conveying. Once you have identified the dominant metrical form in a given poem, look for moments where the meter breaks from that form. While there are many ways to answer this question, let me give you one simple suggestion that I have found useful in my teaching. The next step, of course, is to determine why that matters-how meter can be used not only to read a poem or song but also to interpret it. If you can recognize these four kinds of metrical feet, you’ll be well on your way to reading poetry in a clearer and more natural sounding way. In poetry, these syllables are often arranged to create repeating, sonic units-what literary critics call “feet”-that compose the meter of a given poem. As you probably know, words in the English languages are composed of a set of stressed and unstressed syllables. The most common way to do so in English is to follow the stresses in each phrase of the line. The other readings I’ve read in the opposite meter, and they sound funny and unnatural. In both cases, the reason that the first example works is because my pronunciation matches the poetic meter of the words in each line. What about this this opening line to Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”? This one: “ONCE upON a MIDnight DREARy, WHILE i PONdered WEAK and WEARy”? Or this one: “once UPon A midNIGHT drear-Y, while I ponDERED weak AND wear-Y”? The first one again, right? Consider this line of poetry-the opening to William Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 18 Which of the following readings sounds better? This one: “shall I comPARE thee TO a SUMmer’s DAY?” or This one: “SHALL i COMpare THEE to A sumMER’s day?” The first one, right? Reading a poem’s meter aloud is a similar way to test your ears. When you get the right combination, those letters sharpen and you can read. “Is this better, or is this better?” When you get the wrong lens combination, the world blurs and you have trouble reading letters.

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When you go to the eye doctor to check your vision, they sit you down in front of what’s called a phoroptor and flip through a series of lenses to determine the best one for your eyes.

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