06-09-2011, 03:14 PM
Yes and no.
The stress on the word "could" would shift with emphasis, but if that's a question (or a challenge) then I would probably say it "i COULD, COULD i?"
(as in, "Oh, I could, could I? Well thanks very much, wanker.") That emphasis would make it an iamb + trochee combination. If you said "i COULD, could I" then you'd have two iambs.
The stress on the word "could" would shift with emphasis, but if that's a question (or a challenge) then I would probably say it "i COULD, COULD i?"
(as in, "Oh, I could, could I? Well thanks very much, wanker.") That emphasis would make it an iamb + trochee combination. If you said "i COULD, could I" then you'd have two iambs.
It could be worse