Saturday, November 27, 2010

What is the meter and rhyme scheme in the poem by Mary, Lady Chudleigh "To the Ladies"?Him still must serve, him still obey,And nothing act, and...

The rhyme scheme for this poem is "aabb".

The first three lines of the poem are all iambic tetrameter; however, the last line is also tetrameter, but the problem is that it has 3 iambic feet with 1 anapest foot thrown in the middle. That's why it's confusing. The last line does not follow a regular metric foot pattern. 

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