Question

In this excerpt from Richard Lovelace's "To Lucasta Going to the Wars," which lines use iambic trimeter?

Answer 1

"To war and arms i fly", "The first foe in the field", "A sword, a horse, a shield".

These lines are all made of iambic trimeters. "That from the nunnery" is also a trimatere leaning towards being iambic, however, the last word nunnery composes a dactyl.

Answer 2

Hi there!

In this excerpt from Richard Lovelace's "To Lucasta Going to the Wars", the lines that use iambic trimeter are:

"To war and arms, I fly",

"The first foe in the field",

"A sword, a horse, a shield".

An iamb is a metrical foot with an unstressed syllable followed a stressed syllable.

On the other hand, an iambic trimester is a meter of poetry with three iambs per line, resulting in a total of six syllables. This meter was common in Greek tragedy and comedy, and it also was the meter in which verses were spoken.

Hope it helps!