English is not my native language, and I got interested in learning how to read poetry. In particular, I am now working on recognizing meters. (Figures of speech and literary devices are sort of universal among all languages.)
Any book/resources recommendations?
Also, I picked an easy poem and tried to break it down. I wrote <this> for unstressed, and [this] for stressed. Did I get it right?
<My> <beard> <grows> | <to> <my> <toes> AA
<I> [never] | <wears> <no> <clothes> BA
<I> [wraps] <my> <hair> C
<A>[round] <my> <bare> C
<And> [down] | <the> <road> <I goes> BA
tell me how you scan a whole line of six words without stressing any syllables?
>>9322844
Hmm. Is it:
My [beard] grows | to [my] toes
...
...
...
And [down] | the [road] I goes
How about this:
<Shi><ning> [apples] A
<round> <and> [bright] B
<you> <are> | <such> <a> CC
<fall> <de>[light] B
There's no absolute way for scanning, the rule of thumb is to consider all auxiliary words (pronouns, determiners, prepositions etc) as unstressed and scan everything else basde on syllabic stress, unless the author clearly insinuates otherwise. The poem in your pic could be scanned as
x (x?/) / x x /
x / x / x /
x / x /
x / x /
x / x / x /
>>9322847
No
My [beard] grows [to] my [toes]
>>9322838
rhyme:AABABCBC(A)A
meter: iambic hexameter (1-2;5)/tetrameter(3-4)
my BEARD grows / TO my TOES > A/A
i NEVer WEARS / no CLOTHES > B/A
i WRAPS my HAIR > B
aROUND my / BARE > C/B
and DOWN / the ROAD i GOES > C/(A)A
>>9322855
rhyme: doesn't really have a scheme beyond 2 and 4 having an end rhyme.
meter: trochaic tetrameter (1;3) and trochaic trimeter (2;4)
SHIning APPles
ROUND and BRIGHT > A
YOU are SUCH a
FALL deLIGHT > A
What the fuck is this shit.
Just rhyme and make sure you use more or less the same number of syllables, for starters.
You don't need to break it down like that, it's not supposed to be interpreted that way honestly.
I'm not a native speaker as well, but I enjoy reading and writing poetry without such detailed focus.
>>9322838
Stress, unstress, stress, unstress. That's it. That's all you need. Each pair's called an iamb.
>>9323007
Lol, sorry. The opposite of that. Unstress, stress. What I described's called a trochee, but don't worry about that.
>>9322838
post a vocaroo so we can hear if you're reading it right and also maybe laugh at your voice/accent