6/8/2023 0 Comments The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe![]() Meter length: Foot-unit of meter Monometer-1 foot Dimeter-2 feet Trimeter-3 feet Tetrameter-4 feet Pentameter-5 feet Hexameter-6 feet Heptameter-7 feet Octameter-8 feetĢ. Forms of repetition Meter-regular arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables Meter patterns: Iambic U / That time of year thou mayst in me behold Trochaic / U Tell me not in mournful numbers Anapestic U U / And the sound of a voice that is stillĤ Dactylic / U U This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlock (a trochee replaces the final dactyl) Spondaic / / Break, break, break/ On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! Pyrrhic U U But I have promises to keep When the blood creeps and the nerves prick. Purpose Repetition reinforces the author’s message. Psalm 136) Most often in poetry (Parallelism) B. Early use of repeated sounds and repeated sentence structure Bible: Psalms (ex. ![]() ![]() ![]() Presentation on theme: "Sound and Syntax Literature Unit 2 “The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe."- Presentation transcript:ġ Sound and Syntax Literature Unit 2 “The Bells” by Edgar Allan PoeĪ. ![]()
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