Top 5 Tips: How to Identify Stressed Syllables in English Words | Writing Rhyme & Meter for Children

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In this video I share my top 5 tips for how to identify stressed syllables in English words. Identifying stressed syllables is an essential skill for writers who want to write in rhyme and meter, rhyming picture books, or rhyming poetry for children.
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ABOUT PEEK & CRITIQUE
PEEK & CRITIQUE -- for writers of rhyming picture books, prose picture books, and children's poetry -- is a series that explores concepts taught in The Lyrical Language Lab online course, such as poetic meter, rhyme, sound devices, word choice, lyrical language, imagery, and scansion. I read and critique YOUR submitted writing samples of rhyming picture books, prose picture books, and children's poetry, explaining concepts along the way.
This is a FREE service for kidlit writers! You do not need to have taken my Lyrical Language Lab course to participate. This service is open to ALL children's writers!
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@LyricalLanguageLab 4 года назад

QOTD: Do you have your own tips or tricks for identifying stressed syllables? I'd love to hear about them!

@AnneMariePace 4 года назад

Some people suggest putting your hand on your chin. The syllable on which your hand and chin move down the most is the stressed syllable. I have not tried every word to know if this works, but the ones I've tried, it works for.

@LyricalLanguageLab 4 года назад

@@AnneMariePace Oh yes, I've heard that tip too! Or looking in a mirror to see where your mouth opens wider. I think both of these work best if you exaggerate the enunciation. Thanks for reminding me of this one! :)

@dinette76 3 года назад

I like to say the word out loud as if asking a "question": "Capricious?!?" - that's how I hear the stressed syllable. :-) Wonderful to discover your channel Renée and glad to see you are well. Hope to be able to join your lyrical lab next year. Hugs, D.

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

@@dinette76 That's a great tip! Thank you for sharing -- and I hope to see you in class sometime! :)

@willsperry9817 3 года назад

You have a natural talent for teaching. Thank you.

@cristianjadetulisana174 3 года назад

I'M LITERALLY CRYING HERE WE ARE ON A RUSH MAKING AIAMBIC PENTAMETER SONNET ORIGINALLY BUT MY BROKE EARS AND UNNATIVE TONGUE ARE SAYING THAT I'M THE ONE WHO'S STRESSED. THANK YOU MAAM YOU REALLY REALLY SAVED ME THANK YOUU THANK YOUUUUU I THOUGHT I'LL FAIL MY SUBJECT. update: I finish my year with high honors (95 gwa).

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

Wow, so glad this lesson helped you!!! Hang in there! :D

@mrinvisible40 2 года назад

It's iambic perameter

@mara9783 2 года назад

OMG, I WANT THAT TOO!!

@tjtocker 3 года назад

Hey! Even though English is my first language and I'm actually a professional copywriter, this video was really helpful to me too. I'm always looking to improve the flow of my writing and I've been struggling to understand lexical stress until I saw this video. So, I just wanted to say thank you.

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

Wow, high praise! I always say that studying poetic techniques will help ANY writer in any genre, so your comment speaks to that point and is much appreciated. :)

@queenofweaves916 3 года назад

I am SO glad I found your video! I am taking creative writing and we are studying rhyme and meter. I was at a complete loss, my professor did a great video but I wasn't understanding. I couldn't hear a thing in any of the poems. Thank God for youtube! I subscribed and will be using your work as support. I am a visual learner and the examples you used literally turned a switch on in my head lol.

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

Oh, hooray!! Your message made my day. I am so pleased you found the video helpful. I'm a visual learner too, so I'm ALL ABOUT visual aids, haha. Wishing you the best of luck in your creative writing class!!

@eftitasusarani5865 2 года назад

I'm 46 years & I'm in 4th semester now. This semester, I have Poem & Prose subject. I definitely need this video 👍🏻 Thank you

@danielpavlin Год назад

Hi Ms. Lyrical, I got a C- on my midterm, but I am very much grateful for your tips. This really helps. Wish me luck on the final.

@LyricalLanguageLab Год назад

Best of luck on your final test! You can do it!!

@ShadowMeister42 4 месяца назад

Wow I'm a musician and I've always found it very hard to put lyrics to my melodies and melodies to my lyrics but this video has made writing and composing melodies so much easier The tip of saying it wrong really helped me figure it out and ive never heard anyone explain it that way Thank you so much

@LyricalLanguageLab 4 месяца назад

You're so welcome!

@pennyklostermann 4 года назад

You're the BEST teacher, Renee. So concise and clear. It's like you're in our minds and know just what we need to help us understand! Love these videos!!!!

@LyricalLanguageLab 4 года назад

GAH! You are a doll, Penny! Thank you for your enthusiasm and support!

@elijahkim1885 2 года назад

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I WAS SO CONFUSED IN ENGLISH BUT THIS MAKES IT SO MUCH EASIER

@stephanielmt 2 года назад

Seriously wish someone had explained this to me 15+ years ago when I was in high school. I've always known about my skill gap but it seemed too complicated to figure out on my own. Thanks for this simple breakdown!!

@LyricalLanguageLab 2 года назад

You're very welcome! Glad you found the video helpful! :)

@kristaloechnerbvvv 7 месяцев назад

Yessssss. Ditto.

@rileycook7196 2 года назад

this video is a lifesaver. as far as my own tricks go, i try singing the verse to songs (or well known lines from lit pieces) with different meters. ex) iambic: amazing grace, house of the rising sun; anapestic: twas the night before christmas, how firm a foundation; trochaic: the raven, or any nursery rhyme really; dactylic: there's a really good song called "the dactyl poem" by allan wolf which is extremely helpful for dactyls. hopefully this helps someone!

@LyricalLanguageLab 2 года назад

Great tricks, Riley, thanks so much for sharing those resources! Allan Wolf's "The Dactyl Poem" is amazing -- and I featured it on my blog No Water River. He did a fabulous juggling video for it. :) www.nowaterriver.com/the-dactyl-poem-by-allan-wolf/

@tallisegaston4709 2 года назад

You were the first person to explain this in a way that actually made sense to me. Thank you so much

@LyricalLanguageLab 2 года назад

Yay! I'm glad you found it helpful!

@sheripreston7478 2 года назад

Thank you so much Renee. You have been so helpful and encouraging!!!

@kristaloechnerbvvv 7 месяцев назад

This helped me more than you know. Or maybe you do know. That's probably why you made this video. All I know is I can't thank you enough.

@LyricalLanguageLab 4 месяца назад

Ha! Glad to be of help!

@tomc642 9 месяцев назад

The easiest is to stress a syllable that’s a root word, and ignore anything that looks like a prefix or suffix. That would be my tip.

@LyricalLanguageLab 8 месяцев назад

That is an excellent tip! Thank you so much!

@adrianatamez6904 3 года назад

Thank you so much! I am a SLP student learning to transcribe and I had such a hard time with hearing the stress. These tips are amazing!!!

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

So glad you found them useful! :)

@Ivan-ln3wh 3 года назад

Great video. Thank you for this!

@pattiranson3887 4 года назад

I could already hear the stresses but had no idea about those little marks in the dictionary, thank you!

@LyricalLanguageLab 4 года назад

Tricks of the trade, Patti! :D Glad you found a new tool to use!

@userenvy 3 месяца назад

I Never knew how to search for this and im happy i finally figured it out. Like a song that doesnt rhyme but it hits u. I saw the dramatics of it but not the cadence but now i get it. Im so happy!!!!

@LyricalLanguageLab 2 месяца назад

Hooray! Glad the video helped!

@folkie099 Год назад

Thank you SO MUCH for this video!

@haikyuunendoroid1022 Год назад

The best teacher can’t believe I learned in one short video rather than in class. Thank you so much

@LyricalLanguageLab Год назад

Wow, I'm so glad the video was helpful to you! :)

@keb990 3 года назад

Mind blowing, thank you so much

@callum1989 2 года назад

THANK YOU SO MUCH. GOD BLESS YOU.

@minitapsstudio 3 года назад

Just what I really needed right now. Thank you!

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

Great! I'm so glad the video was useful to you! :)

@aainaanand3943 3 года назад

that was a really helpful session. Thank you so much😊

@onovogoodness2781 Год назад

Thank You for this video, I began noticing the primary stress immediately after watching. Feels like magic

@LyricalLanguageLab Год назад

Wow, that's great! Yay! 😍

@zahhoran7116 3 года назад

thanks very much for your video, it was amazing

@cabdiqadiriya4718 3 месяца назад

Absolutely it is very good topic which deserves to pay explanation thanks ms dear

@hurricane4912 3 месяца назад

I had to learn this for my music theory exam, and also thought it would be beneficial for poetry and Shakespeare. Thank you so much for helping me out as I absolutely could not discern which syllable was accented at all. Saying it with the wrong stresses made it so easy to tell which stresses were right.

@LyricalLanguageLab 2 месяца назад

Wonderful! I'm so glad you found the technique that works for you!

@sophiafernandez6874 3 года назад

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I have a test on this in under an hour and this really saved me

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

I hope your test went well!

@leonaramsland6262 3 года назад

Thank you soooooooo much this helped me with my schoolwork! :D :)

@Kawaiidolfin 3 года назад

Thank you so much, you helped me so much. I am currently in phonetics figuring out primary and secondary stress.

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

I'm so glad the video helped you!! :)

@abbycaudle4426 3 года назад

Thank you so, so much! This cleared up a lot of uncertainty I had about stressed and unstressed syllables! I so appreciate it. (:

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

Yay! I'm so glad the video was helpful for you! :)

@RobinWiesneth 4 года назад

SO inCREdibly AWEsome! Thank you!!!!

@LyricalLanguageLab 4 года назад

Tee hee! I like that you didn't show the secondary stress on in-CRED-i-bly since it's not really stressed in the context of this sentence. :D

@subhumansss2392 3 года назад

God bless for your tips

@a.wenger3964 Год назад

Thank you this was very helpful!

@xx_shadow_xx1137 10 месяцев назад

OMG THANK YOH VERY MUCH ITS OUR MID TERM TOMORROW AND IM STILL STRUGGLING ON THESE NOW I GET IT THANK YOU 😭💜😭💜

@LyricalLanguageLab 10 месяцев назад

Hooray! I hope your test went well!

@Adsterr 5 месяцев назад

this is perfect. thank you

@sharondalgleish1623 4 года назад

So clear and helpful! Thank you!

@LyricalLanguageLab 4 года назад

Glad you found it helpful, Sharon! :)

@PrashantKumar-po6se 2 года назад

Unique explanation ❤ Love from INDIA.

@mohamedvhora9688 2 года назад

Thank you. I was so annoyed with myself for not spotting the stresses. But your video has really helped. Thank you so much.

@LyricalLanguageLab 2 года назад

Wonderful! I'm so glad to know the video was helpful! :)

@deannajohnson3933 2 года назад

This helped so much!!!

@johnpoopstick6069 2 года назад

This definitely gonna help me with my dlab

@katrad1936 3 года назад

I have a poetry test tomorrow and have always struggled with syllables thank you for saving me!

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

I hope you aced your test!

@fluffmonger4634 4 года назад

Thanks for these tutorials, Renee! You're awesome!

@LyricalLanguageLab 4 года назад

Jenny! It's so great to hear from you and your fluffies. :) I'm glad you like the tutorial. I just subscribed to your channel too because I NEED to make an otter plushie. :D

@fluffmonger4634 4 года назад

@@LyricalLanguageLab , aww! Thank you so much! Everyone needs an otter ;).

@storiesbyluci9635 4 года назад

I’m always learning something new with you

@LyricalLanguageLab 4 года назад

That's great to hear, Luci! Thank you for watching!

@user-gq9wr8xo9i 2 года назад

Thank you. I was so annoyed with myself for not spotting the stresses. But your video has really helped. Thank you so much. Lyrical Language Lab

@LyricalLanguageLab Год назад

You're very welcome! I'm glad the video was useful to you! :)

@riyazenglish3576 3 года назад

Than God. Finally I Got. Incredibly well tought.

@awaisrazakhan3514 Год назад

Very helpful, i was trying hard to understand stressed and unstressed syllables since my first semester, i have even asked teacher and no one gave me satisfactory answers as u did in this video 🥰🥰🥰

@LyricalLanguageLab Год назад

I'm so glad you found this tutorial helpful, Awais! The stresses can be tricky for sure. :)

@emilyolivia5737 2 года назад

Thank you! Really helped :)

@lesanctuayre3669 10 месяцев назад

The example with Spatula is so funny and very familiar! I am French. French people are terrible at stressing words in English...Glad I found this channel!

@LyricalLanguageLab 8 месяцев назад

I imagine they are no less terrible than English speakers trying to pronounce French! 😅 I'm glad you found the channel too! :)

@chanteellee8025 Год назад

finally found the easiest way to identify stressed syllables....... you are the best❤❤

@LyricalLanguageLab Год назад

Aw, thank you! So glad you found this helpful. :)

@abdifatahali6884 3 года назад

Teacher thank you i have got very improtant this lesson

@equillibria 11 месяцев назад

I'm reading for an online MA in English and this was very useful.

@LyricalLanguageLab 10 месяцев назад

Wonderful! I'm so glad you found it helpful!

@denissecarolinaferrandomat664 2 года назад

Very good teaching, Reacher😊

@BrittanyPomales 4 года назад

Thanks for breaking it down!

@LyricalLanguageLab 4 года назад

You're welcome, Brittany! Hope it helps! :)

@joshcollins3001 4 года назад

I absolutely love your video’s! So clear and easy to follow. I wondered if there was a video re the single syllable stressed words you described at the end of this please? Thank you 😊

@LyricalLanguageLab 4 года назад

I'm so glad you enjoy the videos,, Samantha! And thanks for reminding me -- yes, a video on single words and how they are stressed in a metrical line is on the to-do list!

@rediff9819 2 года назад

This is Great 👍 thanks

@netryd 3 года назад

Just thanks 🙏🙇

@MsTranthihai71 Год назад

❤ thanks

@cherriexluvs3494 Год назад

I cant thank you enough for this! I have a literature quiz coming up and really needed this video, you're like an english magician!

@LyricalLanguageLab Год назад

Hooray! I'm so glad you found it helpful. Best of luck on the quiz!

@cherriexluvs3494 Год назад

@@LyricalLanguageLab thanks, It went great!

@alinashanellekroll4059 Год назад

Thank you so much for this awesome video! It helped me understand stressed syllables much better, and this will help me in my poetry class!

@LyricalLanguageLab 11 месяцев назад

Yay! I'm so glad you found it helpful!

@jacksonamaral329 Год назад

i enjoyed it.

@AmeerFazal 3 года назад

Love your videos. The ideas are very clear. Especially scansion.

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

I'm so glad you find them helpful! :)

@user-jv9mv2ve5v 2 года назад

Thanxs a lot ❤️

@randomname7321 Год назад

We are doing a mini unit on meter and I thought there was something wrong with me until I found this video thank you soo much the video was also very high quality and formatted great for learning so you should have a cookie!

@LyricalLanguageLab 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for the cookie!

@kendrickbarnes64 2 года назад

Thank you!! I am teaching this to my students this week! We are studying Anne Bradstreet’s poem “To My Dear & Loving Husband!”

@LyricalLanguageLab 2 года назад

Oh, wonderful, Kendrick! I'd be interested to know if any of your students catch the metrical variation in the line "The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray." I like using those variations as challenges, like "Where's the metrical blip?" :D

@kendrickbarnes64 2 года назад

@@LyricalLanguageLab i still have to study this!

@alessandrocal6748 3 года назад

Bell video!!! GRANDE

@mohammadbadran5659 3 года назад

god bless you!

@talenthunt3910 Год назад

So useful, knowledgeable n clear that I obliged.

@LyricalLanguageLab Год назад

Thank you! I'm glad you found it helpful!

@takarin8771 3 месяца назад

Oh my god, this video is absolutely amazing. I was struggling so much before I saw your video, and when I did, I had my mind blow. Thank you so much for such an amazing video❤

@LyricalLanguageLab 2 месяца назад

I'm so glad you found it helpful!

@marcpaters0n 3 года назад

This has been immeasuarbly helpful, thanks.

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

I'm so glad you found it useful! :)

@athdot 4 месяца назад

I am definitely a child and definitely didn't forget how this works and am coming back here because I forgot

@elliscahill4658 3 года назад

BLESS YOU for making this vid

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

I'm so glad you found it helpful! :)

@nooneknowsme1791 2 года назад

Thankyou mam

@ruttsu_kun 2 года назад

Dude... How did I not watch this earlier? Of course! The dictionary! I forgot about that!

@user-uj9fv3mm1j 3 года назад

Very good

@journlimy 2 года назад

thank you! i was planning to write a sonnet and found out about iambic pentameter... i dont really get stressed and unstressed syllables and this video helped me a lot.

@LyricalLanguageLab 2 года назад

Excellent! Good luck with your sonnet! It's a tough form, but a great challenge. :)

@gizemyalcn4401 2 года назад

Thanks a lot! Your teaching approach is just amazing🤩

@LyricalLanguageLab 2 года назад

You're so welcome. I'm glad you found the video helpful! 🙂

@TeacherDaniotAneus 3 года назад

Thank you

@AtiqahSafiyyah 8 месяцев назад

The video is informative and neat! Though I'm still in a trance, I'll practice as I go on. Thanks for the helpful tips, especially the bonus one. You just can't trust your ears sometimes ^^

@LyricalLanguageLab 8 месяцев назад

I'm so glad you found it useful! :)

@natalieperezayap5205 2 года назад

Thank you for this video. I've learned a lot.

@LyricalLanguageLab 2 года назад

You're very welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful. 😊

@AbdulWahab-hk3gf 2 месяца назад

this is absolutely very helpful. thanks ma'am

@LyricalLanguageLab 2 месяца назад

You're welcome!

@nitaponnuninan9554 2 года назад

Thank you for this video.. Today by chance got to watch this.. and I have my CELTA interview today...Hope this helps me

@LyricalLanguageLab 2 года назад

I hope it helped you too! :)

@lemmimini3493 Год назад

woah this video is surprisingly helpful , im as of the moment am a c2 level student and i STILL have problems w identifying stressed syllables . though i am aware of these stresses and do it unconsciously for some reason i cant point it out :'> but safe to say it really isnt a problem anymore thx alot

@LyricalLanguageLab Год назад

Wonderful!! Best of luck in your further studies!

@ilovelevi9049 3 года назад

THANK YOU VERY MUCH ! NOW I CAN PASS MY QUIZ TOMORROW!

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

Hooray! I hope the quiz went well!

@ilovelevi9049 3 года назад

@@LyricalLanguageLab IT DID THANK YOUUUU !

@Kabir_movies 3 года назад

Lots of respect from India mam🙏

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

☺ Thank you!

@thevibeeffect3642 11 месяцев назад

Thank you, it’s was really helpful

@LyricalLanguageLab 10 месяцев назад

You're so welcome!

@criselledeinautrillo7051 8 месяцев назад

gotta admit, i cleared out my chocolates when i got the 3 words correct! thank you so much for this!!

@LyricalLanguageLab 8 месяцев назад

Ha!! You are very welcome -- and hooray for three words correct (and for chocolate)!

@NancyMillerIllustration 2 года назад

This was so helpful!

@LyricalLanguageLab 2 года назад

Yay! I'm glad it was useful! :)

@SirAdams-kg4hr 3 года назад

Yeah! I get a cookie! Yum, where is all this great food?

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

Congrats on the cookie! You'll have to bake it yourself, though. :D

@fatmakhamis264 3 года назад

This video really helped , I have a test tomorrow , I hope I dont forget the tips

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

Best of luck on your test!

@teacherdowrich2028 3 года назад

you are funny! this was great. thank you!

@carolynbennettfraiser5575 4 года назад

Thank you! I never had noticed the stress marks before! Question: are secondary stress syllables still considered stressed beats in poetry? Or would they be considered unstressed? This confuses me.

@LyricalLanguageLab 4 года назад

Carolyn, it CAN be confusing, and I'll do a video on that eventually as well. But in a nutshell, secondary stresses can absolutely be considered stressed beats in verse ... or NOT, depending on placement. Argh ... I think I should do that video sooner than later! :D

@jhall6155 3 года назад

@@LyricalLanguageLab Curious too! Have you that done video yet? This one was so helpful - thank you!

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

@@jhall6155 Not specifically, no, that it comes up often in my Peek & Critique videos. I did do one on single-syllable words and how placement changes the stress: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n5IlwTpckcE.html

@talenthunt3910 Год назад

Greaaaaaaaaaaaaatttt mam

@camerkiddo 3 года назад

Thank for this video! I'm challenging myself to write a Shakespearean Sonnet and the stressed/unstressed syllables are killing me, lol. But I am struggling with monosyllabic words though. How do you know if they're stressed or not?

@LyricalLanguageLab 3 года назад

It's all about the placement, Icona! I made a video that talks just about that -- "One Syllable Words and Dodo Birds" -- which you can find here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n5IlwTpckcE.html

@mudhuthanudimmudkahagadulh4657 Год назад

Accentual-syllabic bardry is based on stressed and unstressed syllabuls. Syllabic bardry is based on how many syllabuls tha barder counts per line regardless uv tha stressed syllabuls. English barders have chosen for tha most part to yus accentual-syllabic bardry, but there's also syllabic bardry.

@adrianacantisani 4 года назад

one of my Italian favourites? all INclusive ;-) ps i liked this short tip-type video

@LyricalLanguageLab 4 года назад

I haven't heard that one, Adriana! :D I heard another the other day that now I can't remember, but there are a lot. I have no right to laugh, though, since my Italian is far from perfect. (Come to think of it, though, my friends DO laugh at me when I mispronounce things... :D )

@shahedayeasmeen8089 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for your this video. Do you have more videos like this one?

@LyricalLanguageLab 5 месяцев назад

Just click on my channel name to see all the tutorials I've posted!

@Youngsarg Год назад

Thanks Mrs

@LyricalLanguageLab 11 месяцев назад

You're welcome!

@danielstamm9957 6 месяцев назад

Such a great video - thank you! Is any of your videos talking about what Secondary Stresses mean for our rhyming? Do we just treat them as unstressed when it comes to meter?

@LyricalLanguageLab 6 месяцев назад

Hi Daniel! Secondary stresses can be stressed beats in a metrical line. For example, this iambic line: "The leaves have formed a canopy" -- the primary stress in CANOPY is CAN and the secondary stress is PY. As you can see, both stresses "count" in the meter, which we scan like this: u/u/u/u/ = the LEAVES have FORMED a CAN-o-PY. I hope that answers your question!

@danielstamm9957 6 месяцев назад

@@LyricalLanguageLab Thank you so much, Renee! That makes perfect sense!