Rhythm And Meter
Rhythm and meter
As repetitive as an echo
Of accent or stress
In poem or song
Like the beats of the heart
The pulse
The beat
The drums
The shakes
The quakes
Those vibrate
That we feel in music
And lines of poetry
Our rhythm from
Everyday life and experience
Like the day and night
The rhythms of years
The rhythms of breathing
The pulse
The beat
The drums
The shakes
The quakes
Those vibrate
That we feel in music
And lines of poetry
To express meaning
In a pattern of stressed and unstressed
Syllables in use
The weightless and heavy weight
In rhythm and meter
The pulse
The beat
The drums
The shakes
The quakes
Those vibrate
That we feel in music
And lines of poetry
Rhythm is the pulse and beat
Meter is the patterned count
The duple meters
Iambic is
The unstressed then the stressed
The weightless then the heavyweight
In the arena
The reverse is
Trochee
The stressed then the unstressed
The heavyweight then the weightless
In the arena
Rhythm is the drums and shakes
Meter is the patterned count
The triple meters
Anapaestic is
Two unstressed then a stressed
Two lightweights then a heavyweight
In the arena
The reverse is
Dactyl
A stressed then two unstressed
A heavyweight then two lightweights
In the arena
Rhythm is the quakes that vibrate
Meter is the patterned count
The substitute meters
Spondee is
Two stressed syllables
Two heavyweights
In the arena
Whereas
Pyrrhic
Two unstressed syllables
Two lightweights
In the arena
Rhythm and meter
All in the arena
That we feel in music
And lines of poetry