Identify the meter, if any, of each line of poetry. "Because their words had forked no lightning they" "A lonely impulse of delight" "No likely end could bring them loss"
Answer
Selection 1:
iambic pentameter
Selection 2:
iambic tetrameter
Selection 3:
iambic tetrameter

Question

Identify the meter, if any, of each line of poetry. "Because their words had forked no lightning they" "A lonely impulse of delight" "No likely end could bring them loss"

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Selection 1: iambic pentameter; Selection 2: iambic tetrameter; Selection 3: iambic tetrameter

Sound and Structure in Poems by Dylan Thomas and W. B. Yeats

Identify the meter, if any, of each line of poetry. "Because their words had forked no lightning they" "A lonely impulse of delight" "No likely end could bring them loss"

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