Poesía: Diferenzas entre revisións

Os patróns formais de métrica empregados nos versos do para crear ritmo xa non dominan a poesía contemporánea en inglés. dominate contemporary English poetry. No caso do [[verso libre]], o ritmo adoita estar organizado en unidades máis flexibles de cadencia no canto da métrica regular. [[Robinson Jeffers]], [[Marianne Moore]] e [[William Carlos Williams]] son tres salientables poetas que rexeitaron a idea de que a métrica con acentuación regular é crítica para a poesía inglesa.<ref>{{cita libro|apelido=Hartman|nome=Charles O|título=Free Verse An Essay on Prosody|ano=1980|editor=Northwestern University Press|isbn=978-0-8101-1316-9|páxinas=24, 44, 47}}</ref> Jeffers experimentou co [[ritmo sprung]] como un xeito alternativo de marcar o ritmo.<ref>{{Harvnb|Hollander|1981|p=22}}</ref>

 

Nas tradicións poéticas occidentais, meters are customarily grouped according to a characteristic [[metrical foot]] and the number of feet per line.<ref>{{Harvnb|Corn|1997|p=24}}</ref> The number of metrical feet in a line are described using Greek terminology: [[tetrameter]] for four feet and [[hexameter]] for six feet, for example.<ref>{{Harvnb|Corn|1997|pp=25, 34}}</ref> Thus, "[[iambic pentameter]]" is a meter comprising five feet per line, in which the predominant kind of foot is the "[[Iamb (foot)|iamb]]". This metric system originated in ancient [[Greek poetry]], and was used by poets such as [[Pindar]] and [[Sappho]], and by the great [[Tragedy|tragedians]] of [[Athens]]. Similarly, "[[dactylic hexameter]]", comprises six feet per line, of which the dominant kind of foot is the "[[dactyl (poetry)|dactyl]]". Dactylic hexameter was the traditional meter of Greek [[epic poetry]], the earliest extant examples of which are the works of [[Homer]] and [[Hesiod]].<ref name=greek>{{cite web|publisher=Aoidoi|title=Introduction to Greek Meter|date=January 2006|author=Annis, William S|pages=1–15|url=http://aoidoi.org/articles/meter/intro.pdf}}</ref> Iambic pentameter and dactylic hexameter were later used by a number of poets, including [[William Shakespeare]] and [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unibl.eu/pdf/examples_metrical_systems.pdf|accessdate=10 December 2011|title=Examples of English metrical systems|publisher=Fondazione Universitaria in provincia di Belluno}}</ref> The most common metrical feet in English are:<ref>{{Harvnb|Fussell|1965|pp=23–24}}</ref>

[[File:Homer British Museum.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[Homer]]]]