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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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Is any of this iambic pentameter?
If love never dies, then what dies instead?
My heart died instead, he left when he could.
“But love conquers all”, that is what he said.
If love never dies, why do I wish I would?
“I will never leave, would never hurt you.”
Lies flowed out like rain on a stormy day.
My heart died instead, he left when he could.
“But love conquers all”, that is what he said.
If love never dies, why do I wish I would?
“I will never leave, would never hurt you.”
Lies flowed out like rain on a stormy day.
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Poetry isn't really my strong point, but it is my understanding that we must count every syllable, unstressed then stressed. *In the first line, for example, you start out right, but you are trying to include the word "never" as one unstressed syllable and "dies in-" as one syllable, and neither works. *In line 2 you are making 'died in-' one unstressed syllable. *Back to line 1 now. In
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Anonymous Is any of this iambic pentameter?Each line is pretty close, but not completely accurate. You need 10 syllables with alternating stress and beginning with an unstressed syllable. Even though the masters of iambic pentameter will change the stress pattern for a few words here and there for emphasis, your lines are a little too free in this respect.
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The following version (assuming this is the last six lines of an Elizabethan sonnet) is iambic pentameter:
If ^love could ^never ^die, then ^what, in^stead?
My ^head, my ^heart, my ^soul - they ^all did ^die.
My ^guts, they've ^been plucked ^out; I've ^now got ^cred,
with ^ev'ry ^man who's ^been kicked ^in the ^eye,
by ^you, you ^brazen ^slayer ^of men's ^souls.
I ^hop
If ^love could ^never ^die, then ^what, in^stead?
My ^head, my ^heart, my ^soul - they ^all did ^die.
My ^guts, they've ^been plucked ^out; I've ^now got ^cred,
with ^ev'ry ^man who's ^been kicked ^in the ^eye,
by ^you, you ^brazen ^slayer ^of men's ^souls.
I ^hop
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