![]() So why would they be unstressed or fall in the unstressed part of the iamb in Shakespeare's sonnet? There are countless other examples which I could post it here, but I nearly lost 40 minutes just writing these four lines above. H i s t e n/-d e r h ei r/m i ght b ea r/ h i s m e /-m o - r yī u t th ou /c o n-tr a c/-t e d t o /th i ne ow n/br i ght eyesĬorrect me if I'm wrong again, but should not words like "bright" and "might" be accented as well? As far as I know, if you get a good dictionary that will show you the stressed syllables in words, one should find that "bright" and "might" are stressed words. Th a t th e re/b y b eau /t y' s r o se/ m i ght n e v/ -e r d ie So (and correct me if I'm wrong please) we have:įr om f ai r/- e st cr ea /-t u res w e /d e -s i re/ i n -cr ea se Since I'm not really sure how to place the stressed/unstressed signs over the words, I'll make it red the stressed syllable and blue the unstressed syllable. I once scanned Shakespeare's first sonnet by myself to identify the iambic feet in the lines. But it's during this process that I get confused. I often try to scan or "dissect" other poems to try to see how the poet uses the meter, so I can better understand it. The problem comes to me when I try to apply that to my own poetry. The concept itself seems pretty simple and straight-forward (we have the trochee, iamb, spondee, and phyrric aside from other foots ). ![]() What I'd like to get clear is this: I have a real problem with understanding this stressed/unstressed syllable thing in poetry.
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