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Meter Practice

Meter Practice. What’s the meter with you?. Twenty-nine distinct damnations. Metrical analysis. Will ye bridle the deep sea with reins, will you chasten the high sea with rods Will ye take her to chain her with chains, who is older than all of you Gods?. Analyze this.

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Meter Practice

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  1. Meter Practice

  2. What’s the meter with you? Twenty-nine distinct damnations...

  3. Metrical analysis Will ye bridle the deep sea with reins, will you chasten the high sea with rods Will ye take her to chain her with chains, who is older than all of you Gods?

  4. Analyze this For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE; And the stars never rise, but I see the bright eyes Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE.

  5. Pick your meter A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years.

  6. Try these lines • Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes • She will have music wherever she goes

  7. Meter? Monocle-bonocle Theodore Roosevelt Bullied his way to the Top of San Juan: Muscular buster of Trusts and a booster of, Incontrovertibly, Brains under brawn

  8. Guess this one The courage that my mother had Went with her and is with her still

  9. The Tester - what can you say about these lines, metrically? When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride Till I get to the bottom and I see you again Yeah, yeah, yeah Do you don't you want me to love you I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer well you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer

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