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Iambic pentameter and iambic tetrameter are the most common metrical lines. The iamb is by far the most common metrical foot in English poetry as it is the rhythm that most closely resembles normal speech. Iambic pentameter is the classic metrical form for English poetry, but iambic tetrameter is also very common.
setbacks to his poetic ambition
Meter is determined from scansion.
death
blank verse
ode
they were superstitious
He received a call / about a bill / before he fell. - APEX
murder the old man
They are called quatrains, which means "four line unit". They are followed by a couplet, which means "two line unit".
They were very wasteful of the buffalo
rhyme
Chance played a big role in Roman battles.
"The quails cooed their aubade as the sky took on the rosy tint of dawn." Is an example of the use of aubade in a sentence.
Terza rima.
The narrator thinks this man does not realize his own frailty.
the absence of the sun
Indians are able to use the buffalo all year A+
couplets
The time will come, the time will not be long in coming, when new ties will be formed about you--ties that will bind you yet more tenderly and strongly to the home you so adorn.
