
Basics of English Metre
Using this app, you can learn more about English metre through a series of interactive exercises.
Metre refers to the abstract, ideal, or underlying pattern that acts as a template for a line of verse. In English, metrical patterns consist of repeated patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. The Basics of English Metre is available as a website and an app for iOS and Android devices. Throughout its three units it explains concepts such as syllables and stress, metre and rhythm, foot boundaries, elision and grammatical patterns and provides a series of interactive exercises through which you can test your knowledge.
Main contact: Christian Kay
Developer: Brian Aitken
Start year: 1988
End year: 2016
Funded by: Computers in Teaching Initiative
Subject area: English Language & Linguistics
Keywords: AppLearning and Teaching
Record last updated 2020-01-13