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How Poetry Works

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What's a Troky Pentameter?

If like the word banjo is a stress syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, that's a troky. And you could have a a trocic pentameter and that's five trokhes in a line, ye. So if you had four ims, it would be iambic tetrameter, and so on and so onye, there's another one. What else is ter? There's a dactyl, which is astress syllable followed with two unstressed syllables,. Not a fan o thos but what about the anapest? That's too. Unstressed, followed by stress. Kipwinger was a big

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