On the prowl always ready to sting You keep well away from their little clippers They could kill with one sting and bring Pain so no not going near their nippers
Like so many, a lovely, fun and creative piece of poetry. Well done! But the iambs are not there yet...
Here it is stressed iambically:
on THE prowl ALways REAdy TO sting you KEEP well Away FROM their LIttle CLIPPers they COULD kill WITH one STING and BRING pain SO no NOT goING near THEIR nipPERS
Look through that and see which syllables sound strange when they are stressed. Look also at when you don't have enough syllables in the line.
You can do this - like everyone else, you are just going to need to persevere. :)
There is no hope for me i don't now about anyone else but i have no idea what an iamb is and it's gonna take me a little longer than everyone else i can feel it!
Don't be disheartened. :( You WILL get it, as will everybody else. It is just that this is difficult stuff - and that is the whole point of the workshop: if it was easy work then it wouldn't be stretching you. So don't worry. :)
Let's look at my blogger name, for example: ENGLISHGURU.
Could you begin a line of iambic verse with that word? e.g. Englishguru thinks he's really clever NO. Why not? Because the word Englishguru is not iambic. If you say the word out loud, you find yourself stressing the first and third syllables, don't you? ENglishGUru. So, for it to appear in a line of iambic verse, it would need to begin on one of the STRESSED syllables, e.g.: this ENglish GUru THINKS he's REALly SMART. (dee-DUM, dee-DUM, dee-DUM, dee-DUM, dee-DUM) And that is iambic. Because the rhythm falls dee-DUM throughout.
So an IAMB is a collection of TWO syllables, where it is the SECOND which is naturally STRESSED.
Some words which COULD begin a line of iambic verse? poTAto withIN unTIL inCREDiBLE toMORRow
Some words which could NOT? PEOple ANiMALS TIgers OFten FREEdom
Like so many, a lovely, fun and creative piece of poetry. Well done! But the iambs are not there yet...
ReplyDeleteHere it is stressed iambically:
on THE prowl ALways REAdy TO sting
you KEEP well Away FROM their LIttle CLIPPers
they COULD kill WITH one STING and BRING
pain SO no NOT goING near THEIR nipPERS
Look through that and see which syllables sound strange when they are stressed. Look also at when you don't have enough syllables in the line.
You can do this - like everyone else, you are just going to need to persevere. :)
There is no hope for me i don't now about anyone else but i have no idea what an iamb is and it's gonna take me a little longer than everyone else i can feel it!
ReplyDeleteDon't be disheartened. :( You WILL get it, as will everybody else. It is just that this is difficult stuff - and that is the whole point of the workshop: if it was easy work then it wouldn't be stretching you. So don't worry. :)
ReplyDeleteLet's look at my blogger name, for example: ENGLISHGURU.
Could you begin a line of iambic verse with that word? e.g. Englishguru thinks he's really clever
NO. Why not? Because the word Englishguru is not iambic. If you say the word out loud, you find yourself stressing the first and third syllables, don't you? ENglishGUru.
So, for it to appear in a line of iambic verse, it would need to begin on one of the STRESSED syllables, e.g.: this ENglish GUru THINKS he's REALly SMART. (dee-DUM, dee-DUM, dee-DUM, dee-DUM, dee-DUM)
And that is iambic. Because the rhythm falls dee-DUM throughout.
So an IAMB is a collection of TWO syllables, where it is the SECOND which is naturally STRESSED.
Some words which COULD begin a line of iambic verse?
poTAto
withIN
unTIL
inCREDiBLE
toMORRow
Some words which could NOT?
PEOple
ANiMALS
TIgers
OFten
FREEdom
Does that make any more sense?