How to define an iamb and a trochee

How to define an iamb and a trochee

The iamb and trochee are meters. Disyllabic because consist of two syllables, on one of which the accent falls. In an iamb the accent falls on the second syllable, in a trochee - on the first. A shock and unaccented syllable form foot.

It is required to you

  • - paper,
  • - handle or pencil;
  • - poem for the analysis.

Instruction

1. An iamb and a trochee — disyllabic, the simplest, meters. The name of a trochee came from the Greek word of "dance tune", the origin of the word "iamb" is attributed to the musical instrument of the same name. Both sizes are vigorous, thanks to rhythmical alternation of shock and unaccented syllables. The iamb and a trochee can often be met in a song genre.

2. A trochee - poetic a meter with an accent on the first syllable. Take some work for analysis. For example, all known lines of A.S. Pushkin: "The fall covers the sky with a haze...".

3. Place in all analyzed text of an accent. Schematically designate shock and unaccented syllables. Designate percussions!, unaccented-. Look what turned out:!-!-!-!-.

4. Notice regularity on what syllable the accent constantly falls. In disyllabic foot there has to be only one shock syllable, the sequence of shock syllables forms the size. The size where from two syllables one shock is disyllabic. In a trochee the accent always falls on an odd syllable, in the sorted line - on 1, 3, 5, 7 syllable.

5. Notice that ideally been loss for words from two syllables meets seldom. Therefore it is possible to meet the phenomenon, characteristic of the disyllabic sizes, as pirrikhiya - the facilitated foot where on one syllable the accent does not fall. To determine the poem size where met pirrikhiya, it is necessary to place accents in several lines and already to draw a conclusion about the size.

6. For example, lyrics of Yu. Shevchuk: "What is fall - it is the sky,//the Crying sky underfoot". Accents form such scheme:!-!-!-!-! -//!--!--!-. In the second line meets pirrikhiya twice - in the 2 and 4 foot.

7. An iamb - disyllabic foot with an accent on the second syllable. In a line of an accent always fall on even syllables - 2, 4, 6, 8. The fragment from Eugene Onegin can serve as an example: "I write you what Bol,//That I can tell still?".

8. Place in the words of an accent and schematically represent shock and unaccented syllables:-!-!-!-!-. The accent always falls on even syllables: 2, 4, 6, 8.

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