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")

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Savanah Odonnell

9 October, 23:52

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")

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Answers (1)

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Jaida Whitehead · Answer 1

Excerpt 1. Tetrameter.

Excerpt 2. Tetrameter

Excerpt 3. Trimeter

Excerpt 3. Trimeter

Explanation:

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.