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Train slide 8 Posted 8 years ago
Poetic Meter in Housman's "Infant Innocence"
I'd like to know the poetic meter in Housman's "Infant innocence," which runs as follows:
The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild;
He has devoured an infant child.
The infant child is not aware
It has been eaten by the bear. - A. E. Housman’s “Infant Innocence”
Is it trochaic, as I have read somewhere? It looks to me like iambic at the beginning? How would you scan it?
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It's iambic tetrameter. You can't have trochaic meter with all those unstressed syllables at the beginnings of lines. CJ
- It's iambic tetrameter.
- You can't have trochaic meter with all those unstressed syllables at the beginnings of lines.
- CJ
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It's iambic tetrameter.
You can't have trochaic meter with all those unstressed syllables at the beginnings of lines.
CJ
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