Poetry Events
Different traditions and genres of poetry have a tendency to make use of completely different meters, ranging from the Shakespearean iambic pentameter and the Homeric dactylic hexameter to the anapestic tetrameter utilized in many nursery rhymes. However, a variety of variations to the established meter are common, each to provide emphasis or attention to a given foot or line and to avoid boring repetition. For instance, the stress in a foot may be inverted, a caesura may be added , or the final foot in a line could also be given a female ending to soften it or be replaced…
