ASSIGNMENTS:

Robert Herrick – “Upon Julia’s Clothes”…………………….......……………………..1053
Richard Lovelace – “Song: To Lucasta, Going to the Wars”……….....……………1075
John Milton – Paradise Lost…………………………………………………....…….931-933
George Herbert – “Easter Wings”……………………………………...…...…………….1046
Sir John Suckling – “Song”……………………………………………….......………………979

BURNS – “To a Louse”………………………………………………............……..…………876
BLAKE –  “The Lamb”…………………………………………………...........……..………1134
                   “The Tyger”…………………………………………….......………………….1234
                   “London”………………………………………………......….....……………..841
WORDSWORTH – “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways”…….....................…..871
COLERIDGE – “Kublai Khan”……………………………………………..........…………..1238
BYRON – “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage”……………………...............………….handout
                   Don Juan……………………………………….…….......……………….handout
SHELLEY – “Ode to the West Wind………………………….............…………….……..1014
KEATS –     “Ode to a Grecian Urn”………………………...........………………………1099
                     “Ode to a Nightingale”…………………….…......……………….………1097
TENNYSON – “Ulysses”…………………………………..……...........…..………………..1275
BROWNING – “My Last Duchess”………………………............…………………………1076
                            “Porphyria’s Lover”…………………....…………………………...1236
ARNOLD – “Dover Beach”……………………………………...........…….…………………893

POETICAL FEET:

iambic:  [unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable] example: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
trochaic:  [stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable] example: Once upon a midnight dreary
anapestic:  [two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable] example: Is it North? Is it South?
dactylic:  [stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables] example: Half a league, half a league, half a league

POETICAL METER:

1 foot: monometer
2 feet: dimeter
3 feet: trimeter
4 feet: tetrameter
5 feet: pentameter
6 feet: hexameter
7 feet: septameter
8 feet: octameter

blank verse is unrhymed iambic petameter