For as surely this garden weeps perfumes
There you will wait for me, and I for you!.
Would someone perform the /-/-/- thing, or for for AS sureLY this GARden, something like that, so I know what is wrong!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
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There you will wait for me, and I for you!. Would someone perform the /-/-/- thing, or for for AS sureLY this GARden, something like that, so I know what is wrong!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: /- is trochaic -/ is iambic that is giving that - is unstressed and / is stressed syllables!. your first line; /-/--/-/-/ is pentameter, but the first two feet are trochaic!. your second line; -/-/-/-/-/ iambic all the way, and both consist of 5 feet, which makes it pentameter!. Try As surely as this garden weeps perfumes for line 1!.Www@QuestionHome@Com These lines contain iambs, but only the second is iambic throughout!. I would read them like this: Line 1: for as SUREly this GARden WEEPS per FUMES -- 2 anapests (--/) and 2 iambs (-/) Line 2: there YOU will WAIT for ME and I for YOU -- straight iambic pentameterWww@QuestionHome@Com |