Drag each label to the correct location
Match each line of poetry to its meter
jambic tetrameter
lambic trimeter
excerpt 1:
Of waters in a land of change
(Louise Bogan, A Tale")
excerpt 2:
This coyness, lady, were no crime
(Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress")
excerpt 3:
In some melodious plot
(John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale")
excerpt 4
Of credit and renown
(William Cowper, The Diverting History of John Gilpin")

Excerpt 1. Tetrameter.

Excerpt 2. Tetrameter

Excerpt 3. Trimeter

Excerpt 3. Trimeter

Explanation:

In the first two Excerpts, they both consist of 8 syllables. And the last two consist of 6 syllables. What does this mean? when you have a 8 syllable line you divide that in half, it has to be even to be a Iambic. So for the last two Excerpts they have syllables of 6, dived six you get three, Trimeter also means three.

the correct answers are: excerpt 1 and excerpt 2: iambic tetrameter

excerpt 3 and excerpt 4: iambic trimeter.

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there were a lot of changes in wars like that and thing evolved

explanation:

caminas makes the most sense here since it means to walk.