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Beyond Iambic Pentameter: Accentual Verse & Ballads

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Today we discuss the concept of accentual verse and explore line forms that differ from accentual-syllabic iambic pentameter. The students also read their adaptations of Emily Dickinson's poem #620 ("Much Madness is Divinest Sense") and William Wordsworth's "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways."

Introduction of Accentual Meter
Student Readings 8:20
Review of Accentual Meter & Introduction of Trochaic, Anapestic, and Dactylic Verse 20:45
Student Readings of Trochaic, Anapestic, and Dactylic Verse 26:10
Syllabic Verse in English 31:04
Student adaptations of Dickinson and Wordsworth 33:18

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