Can you help me write EITHER 250-word+ paragraph or 10 lines in iambic pentameter outlining your version of a Faustian bargain?
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If i write 10 lines can i write about how i will give my life to the devil in order for my mother not to stuggle as much and to be happy?
Yes, you can.
Are you clear on what iambic pentameter is?
No ma'am can you explain it for me please?
An iamb is two syllables per "foot" and the second syllable of each foot is stressed (pronounced a bit more loudly than the first). The word "today" is a perfect example of an iamb.
"Pentameter" means that there are five "feet" to each line of poetry. So if an iamb has two syllables and iambic pentameter has five feet, then a line of iambic pentameter has ten syllables with the even syllables stressed. It sounds like this:
da DA da DA da DA da DA da DA
or
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"
Read carefully:
http://www2.one-eyed-alien.net/~ayelton/Writing/meter.html
Ok thank you I think I have it now
How does this sound and did I do this right?
To I compare my love with my mother.
My love is such I can no way repay.
This when we live forever without the devil.
Prayers are rewarded into heave when I pray every night.
I will give my life to replace her struggles.
In five years give her happiness and stress free.
Then take my unselfish soul and grant her wishes.
I cherish her love more than a whole bag of gold.
I want let the devil take over her soul of giving.
She spent 22 years giving me what I need.
Now it is her chance to stand to up to the devil.
If the devil cannot grant my wish for her happiness.
My soul will be placed in Heaven not with the devil.
Line 1 -- Doesn't make sense
Line 2 -- Good
Line 3 -- No -- it has 12 syllables
Line 4 -- No -- it has 15 syllables
Line 5 -- No -- it has 11 syllables. Even if you change "I will" to "I'd," the rest isn't in iambic form.
Line 6 -- 11 syllables
Line 7 -- 12 syllables
Line 8 -- 14 syllables + a typo
Please check the last lines and correct the above lines.
What about this one?
Through long years my love has gained eternity.
My love is such I can no way repay.
My love, desire, is all her lifelong trials.
I will give my life to replace her struggles.
In five years give her pleasure and stress free.
Then take my kind soul and grant her requests.
Value her love more than a bag of gold.
Her soul of giving the devil won’t have.
She spent years giving me what I need.
It’s her chance to stand up to the devil.
If the devil won’t grant my wish for her pleasure.
My soul will be placed in Heaven not hell.
This is better -- but some lines are not in iambic form.
Line 4 -- change "I will" to "I'll."
Line 9 -- only 9 syllables
Line 11 -- 12 syllables