Day 1
The number and types of beats in a line determines a poem's meter its
rhythmic pattern.
Counting and marking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line
a process called scanning allows you to identify a poem's meter.
Use of commas to set off appositives
Use of commas to set off appositives
Elimination of you without a clear antecedent
Subject and verb agreement
Day 1
The number and types of beats in a line determine a poem's meter, its
rhythmic pattern.
Subject and verb agreement
Use of commas to set off appositives
Counting and marking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line,
a process called scanning, allows a reader to identify a poem's meter.
Elimination of you without a clear antecedent
Use of commas to set off appositives
Day 2
Modern poetry that is called free verse does not have a regular meter.
Scanning a poem, that is written in meter, involves marking each stressed sylla
with an accent; each unstressed syllable with a breve.
Correction of faulty subordination
Use of comma to indicate words omitted in a parallel phrase
Elimination of commas with restrictive clause
Day 2
Modern poetry that does not have regular meter is called free verse.
Correction of faulty subordination
Scanning a poem that is written in meter involves marking each stressed
syllable with an accent, each unstressed syllable with a breve.
Elimination of commas with restrictive clause
Use of comma to indicate words omitted in a parallel phrase
Day 3
The meter of a poem is identified with a vertical line dividing the stressed
and unstressed syllables into groups called poetic feet.
Two common types of poetic feet are: the iamb a stressed syllable followed by
an unstressed one, and the trochee an unstressed syllable followed by a stresse
one.
Correct use of colon before a list
Streamlining sentence with the use of the possessive
Use of commas with nonrestrictive appositives
Day 3
A poem's meter is identified with a vertical line dividing the stressed and
unstressed syllables into groups called poetic feet.
Streamlining sentence with the use of the possessive
Here are two types of poetic feet: the iamb, a stressed syllable followed by an
unstressed one, and the trochee, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
one.
Correct use of colon before a list--do not use after a verb
Use of commas with nonrestrictive appositives
Day 4
The number of feet in a line determine the meter; trimeter is written in three
foot lines, tetrameter in four foot lines, and so on.
For an example of a poem written in iambic pentameter--five iambs per
line--look at An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope.
Use of quotation marks with the title of a poem
Use of hyphens with compound modifiers
Subject and verb agreement
Day 4
The number of feet in a line determines the meter; trimeter is written in threefoot lines, tetrameter in four-foot lines, and so on.
Subject and verb agreement
Use of hyphens with compound modifiers
For an example of a poem written in iambic pentameter--five iambs per
line--look at "An Essay on Man" by Alexander Pope.
Use of quotation marks with the title of a poem
Day 5
Common measure, the popular meter found in ballads, hymns, nursery
rhymes and cheers, alternate four-foot lines and three-foot lines.
The rhythm of hardly no poem fits a meter exactly, indeed, departure
from the meter is often a way to achieve a poetic affect.
Use of dashes to set off interrupter that already contains commas
Correction of commonly confused words
Semicolon and comma and a conjunctive adverb to correct run-on sentence
Elimination of double negative
Subject and verb agreement
Day 5
Common measure--the popular meter found in ballads, hymns, nursery rhyme
and cheers--alternates four-foot lines and three-foot lines.
Use of dashes to set off interrupter that already contains commas
Subject and verb agreement
The rhythm of hardly any poem fits a meter exactly; indeed, departure
from the meter is often a way to achieve a poetic effect.
Elimination of double negative
Use of semicolon and comma with a conjunctive adverb to correct
run-on sentence
Correction of commonly confused words