Divine Word College of Legazpi

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, ARTS AND SCIENCES

Legazpi City

Lit 1
Activity 1
NAME: ABELLANO FRIA MAE A. BLOCK: B

Instructions: Determine the pattern and meter of the following poems:

Example:

The only news I know

Is bulletins all day

From Immortality.

The only shows I see,

Tomorrow and Today,

Perchance Eternity.

- Emily Dickinson, "The Only News I Know"

NUMBER OF FOOT PER LINE: 3

FOOT PATTERN: IAMBIC

METER: Iambic Trimeter

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1.

If ever two were one, then surely we.

If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;

- Anne Bradstreet, "To My Dear and Loving Husband"

NUMBER OF FOOT PER LINE: 5

FOOT PATTERN: IAMBIC

METER: Iambic Pentameter

 2.

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting

On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;

And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,

And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor

Shall be lifted—nevermore!

- Edgar Allan Poe – “The Raven"

NUMBER OF FOOT PER LINE: 8

FOOT PATTERN: ANAPESTIC

METER: Anapestic Octameter

3.

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;

Witches' mummy; maw and gulf...

- William Shakespeare – “Macbeth”

NUMBER OF FOOT PER LINE: 4

FOOT PATTERN: TROCHAIC

METER: Trochaic Tetrameter

4.

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,

And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;

And the sheen of their spears were like stars on the sea,

When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

- Lord Byron - "The Destruction of Sennacherib"

NUMBER OF FOOT PER LINE: 6

FOOT PATTERN: ANAPESTIC

METER: Anapestic Hexameter

 5.

I wandered, lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er dales and hills

When, all at once, I saw a crowd

A host of golden daffodils.

- William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

NUMBER OF FOOT PER LINE: 4

FOOT PATTERN: IAMBIC

METER: Iambic Tetrameter

6.

Half a league, half a league,

Half a league onward,

All in the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

‘Forward, the Light Brigade!

Charge for the guns!’ he said.

Into the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson – “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

NUMBER OF FOOT PER LINE: 3

FOOT PATTERN: TROCHAIC

METER: Trochaic Trimeter