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AP English Literature: Meter in Successive Couplets 12 Views


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Written in a single stanza of 24 lines, the poem's successive couplets are structured according to what kind of meter?


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Sorry Okay More AP English lit for you a couple

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more here Here we go written in a single stands

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up twenty four lines The poems Successive couplets are structured

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according to what kind of meter European system otherwise would

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be a kind of yard Well let's think about this

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Though the poem may look tightly structured with those rhyming

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couplets there isn't a consistent meter which makes it free

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verse writes like a rapper The speaker goes wherever the

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metrical winds take him so that's it It's e free

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verse Iambic pentameter is very common but it's not used

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in this poem So get rid of egg and the

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same goes for I am big Try neater B another

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type of meter and the Rondo D which is actually

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a poetic form like a sonnet or a villain L

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common measure as in sea there is a four line

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rhyming stanzas which also doesn't apply here All those come

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out of the blue and they're just testing your vocab

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lovely people died writing that thing and it cost a

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billion dollars So please advertise it anyway That's it The

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answer is E as in free verse like Free Willy

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