1) All meter, by distinguishing rhythmic from ordinary statement, objectifies that statement and impels it toward a significant formality and even ritualism.
2) Meters can mean by varying itself from metrical norms, powerfully reinforce emotional effects.
3) Meters can mean by association and convention (ie “Hickory dickory dock . . . )
Accentual-syllabic meter: Metrical system in which both accents and syllables are measured and numbered, often in terms of feet, or conventional patterns or units of stressed and unstressed syllables.
common feet:
*iambic (unstressed/stressed)
*trochaic (stressed/unstressed)
*anapestic (unstressed x 2/stressed)
*dactylic (stessed/unstressed x 2)
*spondaic (stressed/stressed)
*pryrhic (unstressed, unstressed) ex: in the/wind blown (<--spondee)=double iamb
[# of feet]meter (ex: pentameter)
scanscion=any system of representing conventional poetic visual symbols for meter analysis/criticism (changes it from oral-->visual)
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