Drag each label to the correct location
Match each line of poetry to its meter
jambic tetrameter
lambic trimeter
excerpt 1:
Of waters in a land of change
(Louise Bogan, A Tale")
excerpt 2:
This coyness, lady, were no crime
(Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress")
excerpt 3:
In some melodious plot
(John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale")
excerpt 4
Of credit and renown
(William Cowper, The Diverting History of John Gilpin")

In the first two Excerpts, they both consist of 8 syllables. And the last two consist of 6 syllables. What does this mean? when you have a 8 syllable line you divide that in half, it has to be even to be a Iambic. So for the last two Excerpts they have syllables of 6, dived six you get three, Trimeter also means three.

mcarc09 mcarc09 · Answer 2 · 2022-03-11T11:25:21+01:00

We can label each line of poetry as iambic tetrameter or iambic trimeter in the following manner:

Of waters in a land of change - iambic tetrameter

This coyness, lady, were no crime - iambic tetrameter

In some melodious plot - iambic trimeter

Of credit and renown - iambic trimeter

Definition of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter

First, we need to understand that an iamb is a sequence or pattern consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. An iambic trimeter is that pattern repeated three times, whereas an iambic tetrameter is that pattern repeated four times.

Let's highlight the stressed syllables in two of the lines above to better illustrate the iambs:

Of waters in a land of change - four iambs --> tetrameter

In some melodious plot - three iambs --> trimeter

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