Meter - Meter is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem. Stressed syllables tend to be longer, and unstressed shorter. In simple language, meter is a poetic device that serves as a linguistic sound pattern for the verses, as it gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound
40 days are important because:-
Grade wise:- If you were to miss out on 40 days of classes, it would bring you very behind in your classes. Your grades would drop tremendously and you would get stressed.
Health wise:- If you dont brush your teeth for 40 days, or even go off your diet for 40 days, your health would be in danger. YOU NEED TO BRUSH YOUR TEETH AT LEAST TWICE EACH DAY!! Also, make sure you keep a balanced diet. :)
Is doing 2 things in the poem:
--chronicling & lamenting the loss of faith
-seeking a substitute, here the possibility of human love for another individual
-firmly believed that Christianity was dead
--his knowledge and investigation of such mid-Victorian intellectual trends as the Higher Criticism of the Bible and quasi-historical concerns about the historical Jesus had convinced him that a reasonable man could no longer believe in Christianity. -YET- Arnold's heart and instincts told him, not that Christianity ought to survive, but that humankind desires and indeed must have something in which to believe in order to trul
