What is a "metre" in poetry?
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its the rhythm of the poem
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A poem can be almost any thing. It doesn't have to rime ether. Here is an example.\n"I don't know how to write a poem.\nI must be very dumb.\nI don't know how to write a poem.\nI must be a bum."\nNo offense!!!
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International System of units\n\nfor length its the meter
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The Elements of Poetry\n\n1. Rhythm: The metrical flow of sound determined by the placement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.\n\nShe stroked molten tones\n\nFrom the heart-carved maple dulcimer.\n\nQuestions: Does there seem to be a regulated metrical pattern to the poem? If so, what? Does each line generally seem to have the same number of stressed syllables? If so, how many? Are some lines longer than others? Why? Are some lines shorter? Why?\n\nExamples: In "Yonosa House," (the poem at the end of this document) the lines generally have three or four stresses, although there is no strict metrical pattern. The shortest line is line three: "My grandma did." The shortness emphasizes the subject (the grandmother) and her action (the verb "to do"). Through her loving actions, the grandmother epitomizes the spirituality and customs of her people.\n\n2. Rhyme: When the final vowel and consonant sounds of words are the same (i.e., mouse/house, low/toe).\n\nQuestions: Is there a rhyme scheme to the poem? If so, what is it? Is there any incidental rhyme in the poem? Which lines? When you say the rhyming words together, what mood, feeling, idea, sense, etc., do they evoke? Is there any internal rhyme? Off -rhyme? List the line numbers and jot down the feelings, etc., the words evoke.\n\nExamples: There is no rhyme scheme in "Yonosa House," but there is off-rhyme at lines 17-19, which are in italics, indicating they are the words/song of the grandmother. These off-rhyming words - rock/bark/hawk - are all words for nature. They indicate that the wisdom/the myths of the race come from an attunement with nature. In line 24 there is internal rhyme: wore/lore. These words .imply that the grandmother "wore" the wisdom of the tribe in her very being, that wisdom was intrinsic in her.\n\n3. Words.\n\nQuestions: Look up and define any words you don't know. And if there are significant words that seem to have more than one denotation and/or connotation, look up the etymologies (the roots of those words).\n\nExamples: Line 13, lanyards = A short rope of gasket for seizing a ladder or the like or to secure rigging; a cord worn around the neck for carrying a knife, keys, or a whistle. From OF word for thong, strap; perhaps laz, lace + naele, string.\n\n4. Repetitions.\n\nQuestions: Are any significant words repeated in the poem? Which ones? Why? That is, what are the repetitions emphasizing?\n\nExamples: The words heart, maple, and hands are repeated in the poem. They emphasize the activities of the grandmother, who is often portrayed doing things, activities from the heart. Love in action, those hands, those activities, her big heart are what the poet remembers most.\n\n5. Alliteration: When two or more words have the same initial sounds (i.e., Becky bopped the baker).\n\nQuestions: What lines contain alliteration? List each line. Write out the words that alliterate. When you say the alliterating words together what feeling, mood, idea, sense, etc., do they evoke?\n\nExamples: Line 6 - sat/sack. The words emphasize her age. Her body no longer has a definable shape. It is like a sack. I can see her hunched over, everything sort of falling into itself.\n\n6. Assonance: Partial rhyme, when the internal vowel sounds of words are the same (i.e., cow/bound/mouse).\n\nQuestions: What lines contain assonance? List each line. Write out the words that assonate. When you say the assonating words together what feeling, mood, idea, sense, etc., do they evoke?\n\nExamples: Line I - stroked/molten/tones. Rich "o" sounds. Depth. Roundness. A resonance. Top capture the tones of the dulcimer. Also the assonance emphasizes the synesthesia of the line. (Synesthesia = the mixing of the senses.. One type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another. A color sings. A song has color.) We can "see" and "feel" the tones, which are like the colors and heat of metal in a forge,
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Seconds is 's' and minutes is 'min'.\n\nThose are the only symbols to be used, 'sec' does not mean second and 'm' means metre not minute.\n\nUnless you're refering to arcminutes and arcseconds in which case " and ' are the symbols to use (although you should never use those for time).
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the poem or the phrase?  Please explain in more detail.
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That is Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant \n It is an Iambic pentameter--- a line of poetry with five iambic feet each containing one unstressed syllable follwed by one stressed syllable.\n\nTo him| who in| the love | of Na|ture holds\n\ncount it 5 feet. all have an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable\n\ncommu|nion with|her vis|ible forms|she speaks
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Poetry that doesn't necessarily rhyme is called prose poetry.  \n\nDo a search on Pablo Neruda and you'll see some very fine examples.\n\nEnjoy
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lyric poem - definition of lyric poem in General\nNoun 1. lyric poem - a short poem of songlike quality
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A Limerick is a five line poem, generally amusing and often rude. E.G.\n\nThere once was a young man named Dave\nWho found and old crone in a cave\nHe said "She's disgusting,\nBut she only needs dusting, \nAnd think of the money I'll save!"\n\nThere once was a young man named Bill\nWho swallowed an atomic pill\nThey found his sex organ\nOn a farm in Glamorgan\nAnd his balls on a hill in Brazil\n\nThere once was a flash guy called Paul\nWho used to do tricks in the hall\nHis favourite trick\nWas to spin on his dick\nAnd glide round the hall on one ball\n\nGet it?
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A single metrical line in a poetic composition; one line of poetry. \nA division of a metrical composition, such as a stanza of a poem or hymn. \nA poem. \nMetrical or rhymed composition as distinct from prose; poetry. \n\nThe art or work of a poet. \nA group of poems: read a book of satirical verse. \nMetrical writing that lacks depth or artistic merit. \nA particular type of metrical composition, such as blank verse or free verse. \nOne of the numbered subdivisions of a chapter in the Bible. \ntr. & intr.v. \nversed , vers·ing , vers·es \nTo versify or engage in versifying. \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nETYMOLOGY: \nMiddle English vers, from Old English fers, and from Old French vers both from Latin versus, from past participle of vertere, to turn; see wer- 2 in Indo-European roots
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It is a poem of couplets.\n\n"Couplet - Two successive lines of poetry, usually of equal length and rhythmic correspondence, with end-words that rhyme. The couplet, for practical purposes, is the shortest stanza form, but is frequently joined with other couplets to form a poem with no stanzaic divisions."
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That was the old definition of a metre. It was later changed because somehow they determined it wasn't accurate (like the distance between those two points became ten million and two metres.) I believe the current definition of a metre is the distance light travels in 1/299792458 of a second, but I've also heard it defined in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a krypton laser.
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SI unit for length is 'meter'
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The meter is the length of the path traveled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299 792 458 of a second.
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You'd do best to start simple. Eight lines, for instance, with either eight or ten syllables in each line. Make the last word in line 2 rhyme with the last word in line 4, and the last word in line 6 rhyme with th elast word in line 8. You don't have to make all the lines rhyme. You might want to try meter; if so, iambic is the easiest.\n\nLike singing, juggling, riding a bicycle no hands or baking a cake, it takes practice.\n\nFigure out what you like best about him - or just something you like about him - and set it to rhyme.\n\n"I love to take your hand in mine, as we\nWalk a-long life's trail; you are so strong and\nWarm, I feel pro-tec-ted in your grasp, I\nE'en like the feel of call-ous on your hand."\n\nI put "-" in to show syllables. "E'en" is a poetic contraction to make the last line come out 10 syllables. It means "Even". I didn't use much meter. The first eight syllables in the first line are iambic (soft-hard). Then it goes to pot. "as we" is two soft syllables in a row.\n\nThis one was what we in the writing trade call quick and dirty. Yours will vary. If he doesn't hold your hand when you walk together, or he doesn't have callouses, pick something else you like about him. It would probably be better to write a number of short ones about shared times or different things you like about him than to try to put all of your love in one long poem.\n\nThere are poems that don't rhyme or have meter. They are easier to write, but they aren't as good. They are like serving hamburger helper instead of rib steak.\n\nMeter means you have a pattern of soft and hard syllables. Most people prounounce "Even" with a strong "E" and a soft "ven", for instance. Iambic means you alternate soft and hard syllables, starting with a soft one. Some people say it is the natural form of English. Iambic pentameter is five of each in each line. Shakespeare used it a lot.
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An arbitrarily agreed upon length was assigned to mean a certain unit of distance.  I believe there is a rod in France with scratches on it that represents a meter, and some other crap thats similar.  The most recent definition is how far light travels in a certain fraction of a second.