Answer:
Trochaic octameter (The foot has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. This pattern repeats eight times in each line.)
- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary (Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”)
Iambic pentameter (The foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. This pattern repeats five times in each line.)
- Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18)
Iambic heptameter (The foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. This pattern repeats seven times in each line.)
- O could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been (Lord Byron, “Youth and Age”)
Dactylic tetrameter. (The foot has a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. This pattern repeats four times in each line.)- Just for a handful of silver he left us (Robert Browning, “The Lost Leader”)
Explanation:
A trochaic octameter is a metrical form where the syllables follow the pattern of a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable, with the pattern occurring eight times in a line. An example of this metrical form is <em>"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary"</em> from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven".
An iambic pentameter is a metrical form where an iamb/ foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, with a repetition of five times in a line. An example of such form is the line<em> "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" </em>from "Sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare.
Iambic heptameter is the same as that of an iambic pentameter, except that the repetition happens seven times in a line instead of five. An example is Lord Byron's <em>"O could I feel as I have felt, or be what I have been"</em> from "Youth and Age".
The dactylic tetrameter form is where a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable, with the pattern repetition of four times in each line. An example is a line <em>"Just for a handful of silver he left us"</em> from Robert Browning's poem "The Lost Leader".
