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OleMash [197]
3 years ago
7

Determine the correct number of feet per line in each of the excerpts.

English
2 answers:
Svet_ta [14]3 years ago
7 0

Answer:

  • Tell me not, in mournful numbers - Tetrameter
  • That I may rise and stand, o’er throw me, and bend - pentameter
  • I stand, and look, And stoop, and drink - diameter
  • Nor any other wold like Cotswold euer sped, So faire and rich a Vale by fortuning to wed. - trimeter
  • Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; - hexameter

Explanation:

A Tetrameter can be visualized when the verse has an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable (tonic).

The pentameter is identified in a verse that features five unstressed syllables followed by five stressed syllables.

The diameter is perceived in a line that has two feet.

The trimeter is perceived when the line contains three feet.

The hexameter is perceived when the line contains six feet.

masya89 [10]3 years ago
4 0

Tell me not, in mournful numbers

(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life”)- Tetrameter (four feet)

An iamb is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed. And when there are four iambs in a line, it is called iambic tetrameter.  

That I may rise and stand, o’er throw me, and bend

(John Donne, Holy Sonnet 14)- pentameter (five feet)

An iambic pentameter is a form of a metrical line in which each line contains five unstressed syllables followed by five stressed syllables. They are usually arranged in an alternating pattern.

I stand, and look,

And stoop, and drink

(Thomas Hardy, “The Robin”)-diameter (two feet)

An iambic diameter is a form of metrical line in which the line contains two iambic feet.  

Nor any other wold like Cotswold euer sped,

So faire and rich a Vale by fortuning to wed.

(Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion: “The Fourteenth Song”)- trimeter (three feet)

An iambic trimeter is a form of metrical line in which the line contains three iambic feet.

Give crowns and pounds and guineas

But not your heart away;

(A. E. Housman, “A Shropshire Lad” XIII)-hexameter (six feet)

An iambic hexameter is a form of metrical line in which the line contains six iambic feet.  


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