![]() We can define meter in poetry as an ordered rhythm which results from a regular alternation of accented and unaccented syllable, or as they are sometimes called, stressed (long) and unstressed (short), syllables in poetry. A word may have one or more vowel sounds, e.g., “love” is one syllable word while the word “arises” contains three syllable, some of which are stressed or accented (as in singing music),- while others are unaccented or without stress on it. ![]() ![]() Everything has its measuring tool just as a mile, used for measuring distance, consists of a number of meters, and each meter consists of smaller units like centimeters and further into millimeters so also meter by which we determine in the rhythm of poetry, is sub-divided into a number of feet and each foot into a numbers of syllables.Ī syllable in English comprised of one vowel sound.
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