Homework Help: Lit.

Posted by Itsmemario on Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 11:49pm.

Okay this poem is making my head hurt! I have to find out its meter and rhyme scheme? I say its a iambic pentameter and made up of slant rhymes? Oh and the metrical variation in the first line is a trouche righttt??

Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile -- the Winds --
To a Heart in port --
Done with the Compass --
Done with the Chart!

Rowing in Eden --
Ah, the Sea!
Might I but moor --
Tonight --In Thee!

Lit. - Writeacher, Monday, May 23, 2011 at 7:46am
It cannot be iambic pentameter because, if it were, each line would have 10 syllables in it. EACH LINE!

Study the information on these two websites:
http://www2.one-eyed-alien.net/~ayelton/Writing/meter.html
and
http://www.uncg.edu/~htkirbys/meters.htm

Let me know what you think.

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