Which sentences use's iambic feet? It can be more than one.
1."My songs do tell how true thou art" (Sir Thomas Wyatt,1557)
2."Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings." (Sir Philip Sidney,1598)
3."And the night is a-cold." (William Blake,1783)
4."The world is too much with us; late and soon" (William Wordsworth,1807)
5."Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May" (William Shakespeare,1609)
6."Little Lamb,who made thee?" (William Blake,1789)
An iamb is an unstressed/stressed foot.
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twas BRIL lig AND the SLI thy TROVES...
did GYRE and GIB ble IN the WABE.
From Lewis Carrols Jabberwocky.
You can pat with your hand as you read and you can easily find iambs.
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Would number 4 be one?
In order to determine which sentences use iambic feet, we need to understand what an iambic foot is. An iambic foot is a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, where the first syllable is unstressed and the second syllable is stressed. So, let's analyze each sentence to see if it follows this pattern:
1. "My songs do tell how true thou art" - This sentence does not use iambic feet since the stress falls on the first syllable of "songs" and "true" instead of the second syllable.
2. "Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings." - This sentence does use iambic feet. We have an example of iambic pentameter, which is a line of verse consisting of five iambic feet. The stressed syllables fall on "fades," "fading," "pleasure," and "brings."
3. "And the night is a-cold." - This sentence does not use iambic feet since the second syllable of "night" is stressed instead of the first syllable.
4. "The world is too much with us; late and soon." - This sentence does use iambic feet. We have an example of iambic pentameter, where the stressed syllables fall on "world," "much," "with," "late," and "soon."
5. "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May." - This sentence does not use iambic feet since the stress falls on the first syllable of "rough," "winds," "shake," and "darling" instead of the second syllable.
6. "Little Lamb, who made thee?" - This sentence does not use iambic feet since the stress falls on the first syllable of "little," "lamb," and "made" instead of the second syllable.
From the given sentences, the sentences that use iambic feet are:
- "Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings." (Sir Philip Sidney,1598)
- "The world is too much with us; late and soon" (William Wordsworth,1807)