Poetic Metre | Baamboozle - Baamboozle | The Most Fun Classroom Games!

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Scan these two lines (3 feet per line): Hickory dickory dock, | The mouse ran up the clock.

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What metre is this? ˘ ˘ – | ˘ ˘ – | ˘ ˘ – | ˘ ˘ – |

Anapestic tetrameter

What is a trochee?

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Scan these two lines: Sorrow like a ceaseless rain | Beats upon my heart

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What is the metre of this line? Middle America, now it's a tragedy

Dactylic tetrameter

What metre is this? – ˘ ˘ | – ˘ ˘ | – ˘ ˘ | – ˘ ˘ |

Dactylic tetrameter

What metre is this? – ˘ | – ˘ | – ˘ | – ˘ | – ˘ | – ˘ |

Trochaic hexameter

What is an iamb?

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What metre is this? ˘ – | ˘ – | ˘ – | ˘ – | ˘ – |

Iambic pentameter

What is the metre of these two lines? Forests growing underwater | Press against the things we know

Trochaic tetrameter

What is a dactyl?

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What is a spondee?

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Scan this line (4 feet): When my mother died I was very young

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Scan this line: 'Cause they feed me the fuel that I need for the fire to burn

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What is the metre of this line? If music be the food of love, play on

Iambic pentameter

What is an anapaest?

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Scan this line: I wandered lonely as a cloud

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