Question

Why would a poet vary the number of feet in lines of poetry?

Answer 1

..In verse and poetry, meter is a recurring pattern of stressed (accented, or long) and unstressed (unaccented, or short) syllables in lines of a set length. For example, suppose a line contains ten syllables (set length) in which the first syllable is unstressed, the second is stressed, the third is unstressed, the fourth is stressed, and so on until the line reaches the tenth syllable. The line would look like the following one (the opening line of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18") containing a pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables. The unstressed syllables are in blue and the stressed syllables in red.

Answer 2

Ahh, yes. But that doesn't quite explain why they would vary the number of the feet /:

Answer 3

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xmeter.html

Answer 4

hold on

Answer 5

I think I'm just gonna wing it, I can't find it in my lessons or anywhere on the internet, lol.

Answer 6

same

Answer 7

I'm not sure why I have to learn this, I'm not, nor will I ever be, a poet lol.

Answer 8

XD true but u never know

Answer 9

I don't believe I would study in something I hate, lol!