JAMB - Literature In English (2010 - No. 28)
Monometer is a
Line of verse consisting of a metrical foot
Single foot used in John Milton's sonnets
line repeated in first syllable of a word
Single meter of Coleridge's poem, 'Christabel.'
Explanation
A monometer is a mine of verse consisting of one metrical foot. This is the poetic metre that consists of a single metrical foot per line. This means that each line of verse has only one stressed and one unstressed syllable. e.g.
Freedom.
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