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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago

Iambic Pentameter Help Please

I had some really big trouble with iambic pentameter, but i think my rhymes are ok

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Villainous Devils


Glaive of thy hideous wounded silence and all in painful death
Did you fall into that blissful shade of raven night?
Lonely wretched path, senseless, woe the sigh and thy breath
A sonnet for the sad demons existing in spite of light


Haunted you in those proud yet drunken, loveless, lonely nights
And for the seemingly sweet laughing shadows that stained inyour soul
The threatening memories echoing your honored, wondering,lost white knight
Only a sonnet for your forgiveness; I take no passionatesword, no fickle control


With peril-the sadness I unwillingly, suddenly knifed yoursweet life
The always-fragile road that lies ahead seemingly neveroverflowed
With fear and sensational hope, loss and salvation's bony strife
Did you wake with a sigh of terror in your silk and rosecovered abode?


Did you hear the raven’s woe, ever watchful in this exalted darkness?
Til’ I forgive: in these eternal dreams, I indeed embracethe cloaked, dim blindness
  

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Well, it's certainly not iambic pentameter. I have marked the footage to the right, with / = stressed syllable and u = unstressed syllable: Glaive of thy hideous wounded silence and all in painful death --- /uu/uu/u/uu/u/u/ Did you fall into that blissful shade of raven night? -- uu/u/u/u/u/u/ Lonely wretched path, senseless, woe the sigh and thy breath - - /u/u//u/u/uu/ A sonnet for the sad demons existing in spite of light -- u/uuu//uu/uu/u/ A lot of nice words, but the overall picture is vague.

  • Well, it's certainly not iambic pentameter.
  • I have marked the footage to the right, with / = stressed syllable and u = unstressed syllable: Glaive of thy hideous wounded silence and all in painful death --- /uu/uu/u/uu/u/u/ Did you fall into that blissful shade of raven night?
  • -- uu/u/u/u/u/u/ Lonely wretched path, senseless, woe the sigh and thy breath - - /u/u//u/u/uu/ A sonnet for the sad demons existing in spite of light -- u/uuu//uu/uu/u/ A lot of nice words, but the overall picture is vague.
  • Very promising, though; very interesting.
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Well, it's certainly not iambic pentameter. I have marked the footage to the right, with / = stressed syllable and u = unstressed syllable:

Glaive of thy hideous wounded silence and all in painful death --- /uu/uu/u/uu/u/u/

Did you fall into that blissful shade of raven night? -- uu/u/u/u/u/u/
Lonely wretched path, senseless,
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u cant have knights and knights

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