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what meter is this line in what foot and if you know all of that poetry stuff could you please inform me
and the same thing for this line: two household both alike in dignity and seen from above the sky is deep clouds float there

2007-10-21 10:03:07 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Poetry

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The lines from Annabel Lee are in anapestic feet

"An anapaest or anapest, also called antidactylus, is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. In classical quantitative meters it consists of two short syllables followed by a long one (as in a-na-paest); in accentual stress meters it consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable."

and trimeter:
a trimeter is a metre of three metrical feet per line


The line from Romeo and Juliet:

"Two household both alike in dignity" is, like much of Shakespeare, iambic pentameter

The lines from James Merrill's "A Downward Look":

"seen from above the sky
is deep clouds float there"

is free verse. So, There is no any "set" meter in this poem, but the meter clearly plays a key role in its effectiveness. But the first line is iambic trimeter
But the lines above are trimeter.

2007-10-21 10:30:37 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 1 0

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