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Handout from the Purdue University writing lab that explains poetic meter and scansion. Explains several terms, including the following: syllabic, accentual, accentual-syllabic, quantitative, scansion, accented, unaccented, poetic foot, caesura, iambic pentameter, iambic, anapestic, trochaic, dactylic, spondaic, pyrrhic, monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter, and octameter.
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- Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)