Question

What is the effect of iambic tetrameter (four sets of unstressed and stressed syllables) in the poem?

Answer 1

There is a Garden in Her Face
by Thomas Campion

There is a garden in her face
Where roses and white lilies grow;
A heav'nly paradise is that place
Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow.
There cherries grow which none may buy,
Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.

Those cherries fairly do enclose
Of orient pearl a double row,
Which when her lovely laughter shows,
They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow;
Yet them nor peer nor prince can buy,
Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.

Her eyes like angels watch them still,
Her brows like bended bows do stand,
Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill
All that attempt with eye or hand
Those sacred cherries to come nigh,
Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.

Answer 2

A. It creates a quick rhythm that suits the light theme.

B. It creates a slow rhythm that suits the serious theme.

C. It creates an uneven rhythm that emphasizes some lines.

D. It creates a fast rhythm that suits the sarcastic tone.

Answer 3

What do you think?

Answer 4

@Dodgegirl I think A

Answer 5

Try reading it in a brittish accent

Answer 6

I think it is actually C because it starts off slow and then speeds up

Answer 7

Nope, not C.

Answer 8

do you think it is b