Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 8 AIL 0729 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Measuring Procedure
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The idea
Count the total lines. Scan one line for its beats. Map the rhyme with letters. Note the stanza divisions. Four measurements, in that order, and the answer to a naming question falls out of them before the poem has been read for sense.
In practice
Lines, beats, rhymes, stanzas.
Where people slip
Measure before reading for sense.
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