Marking correct answer brainliest (for plato)
using the method of scansion, match each poetry excerpt to the correct rhythm and meter.
1. trochaic octameter (the foot has a
stressed syllable followed by an
unstressed syllable. this pattern
repeats eight times in each line.)
2. iambic pentameter (the foot has
an unstressed syllable followed by
a stressed syllable. this pattern
repeats five times in each line.)
3. iambic heptameter (the foot has
an unstressed syllable followed
by a stressed syllable. this pattern
repeats seven times in each line.)
4. dactylic tetrameter (the foot has a
stressed syllable followed by two
unstressed syllables. this pattern
repeats four times in each line.)
match the numbers to the letters
a. o could i feel as i have felt, or be what i have been
(lord byron, “youth and age”)
b. once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary
(edgar allan poe, “the raven”)
c. just for a handful of silver he left us
(robert browning, “the lost leader”)
dshall i compare thee to a summer’s day?
(william shakespeare, sonnet 18)