For Tuesday,
As we went over in class, using already existing material from your "I remembers", your overheard material and/or your responses to music we listened to, craft at least 10 lines that have an identifiable governing meter. Most likely, since we are writing in English, this will be iambic. It will be easiest to spot and easiest to rearrange for.
You can use any meter in English as your governing meter - Anapestic, Dactylic, Spondaic, Trochaic or Iambic, it's just that iambic is likely to be clearer and already present in you texts.
The handouts provide plenty of material to will help to clarify, but no amount of explanation will replace saying a word or line out loud and feeling your own tongue press up against your front teeth to determine where an accent falls. You can't intellectually learn this. You have to feel it in your body.
Listen to yourself.
As we went over in class, using already existing material from your "I remembers", your overheard material and/or your responses to music we listened to, craft at least 10 lines that have an identifiable governing meter. Most likely, since we are writing in English, this will be iambic. It will be easiest to spot and easiest to rearrange for.
You can use any meter in English as your governing meter - Anapestic, Dactylic, Spondaic, Trochaic or Iambic, it's just that iambic is likely to be clearer and already present in you texts.
The handouts provide plenty of material to will help to clarify, but no amount of explanation will replace saying a word or line out loud and feeling your own tongue press up against your front teeth to determine where an accent falls. You can't intellectually learn this. You have to feel it in your body.
Listen to yourself.
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