sorry but you're not even stretching your arms.
lines of iambic pentameter need only have three iambic feet. most people in the know...your formalist idiots actually know this to be so.
the soliloquy from hamlet, written but shakespeare that iambic meter guy....count the feet the first line count the iambs
count the iambs on the first 5 line. then have a peep at the sixth.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
in general i'd tell somebody the meter was off unless i knew they understood the iambic rule, i only know this because i was shown it by a few members on the site. i'm not very good with meter but bad meter is bad meter. if someone who really knows what good meter is tells you you have bad meter, believe them. you either know it or don't know it. to assume you know it doesn't cut the mustard.
Such faith they had once to crane their faces in
can you show where the stressed and unstressed syls are please.
i'm not so sure you have a good example of a poem
lines of iambic pentameter need only have three iambic feet. most people in the know...your formalist idiots actually know this to be so.
the soliloquy from hamlet, written but shakespeare that iambic meter guy....count the feet the first line count the iambs
count the iambs on the first 5 line. then have a peep at the sixth.
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
in general i'd tell somebody the meter was off unless i knew they understood the iambic rule, i only know this because i was shown it by a few members on the site. i'm not very good with meter but bad meter is bad meter. if someone who really knows what good meter is tells you you have bad meter, believe them. you either know it or don't know it. to assume you know it doesn't cut the mustard.
Such faith they had once to crane their faces in
can you show where the stressed and unstressed syls are please.
i'm not so sure you have a good example of a poem