Monday, February 13, 2012

Can someone please tell me if i explained this right?

i have a presentation to do explaining the poem daffodils but my part of the presentation is to exaplin the structure of the poem now i know all of the main parts like the ryhme scheme but when it comes to the poem is in iambic tetrameter i am stumped....





does that mean there are three sylables in each line or ok well i looked it up but the explanation confuses me a line consisting of four metrical feet..



can some one please explain what iambic tetrameter is like how it deals with the poem



any help would be great



thanks

Can someone please tell me if i explained this right?
Iambic tetrameter is a line in a poem with four iambs. One iamb consists of two syllables, where the first has no emphasis and the second has emphasis.



What does that mean in English? It means that every line in iambic tetrameter has eight syllables. The syllables group in pairs (called iambs). The first syllable of each pair is not stressed while the second one is.
Reply:Wiki has the best explanation:



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iambic_tetr...


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