Could someone help me in poetry?

Question: Could someone help me in poetry!?

Could someone explain a metrical foot, unstressed syllable, and iambic pentameter in the folowing line of poetry!?

To her let us garlands bring
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Well I can help with some of it!.

The unstressed syllables in this are two, four, and six!. So when you speak it (I'll use caps for the stresses) it should be

TO her LET us GARlands BRING!.

However, this is not iambic pentameter!. Iambic pentameter is a line that contains ten syllables, with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable!. If we stretch the line provided out, it would be,

To HER let US bring GARlands AND plenTY!.

To clear up any confusion, the reason that "To her let us" can have different versions of stressing, is because single syllable words get their stresses from the longer words in a line, rather than on their own!.

An easy way to tell what part of a multi-syllable word are stressed, is to say the word out loud and see which part you put more emphasis on!. So with Garlands, you should find yourself putting more weight on the first syllable, than the second!.Www@QuestionHome@Com