Meter 15th post

Definition: Meter means pattern in poem.

Example:

Daily, daily, / sing to Mary,

Sing my soul her praises due:

All her feasts, her / actions honor,

With the heart's devotion true.

Now in wond'ring / contemplation,

Be her majesty confessed;

Call her Mother / call her Virgin,

Happy Mother, Virgin blest.

Significance: Meter is based on particular patterns of syllables of particular types. Pentameter, five sets of two syllables following a stressed unstressed pattern (called an iamb), is the most common meter, followed by tetrameter, four sets of the aforementioned iambs. ( according to what i learned in class)