Question

Can someone please help me with this? Write a couplet in trochaic pentameter. @pooja195 @KendrickLamar2014 @rebeccaxhawaii @Hayhayz @haleyelizabeth2017 @Keigh2015 @purple_pink @jabez177 @Jacob902 @Liv1234 @batmano3 @ThatOneLibrarian @undeadknight26 @BruhObamaCare @Adrianna.Gongora @ILovePuppiesLol

Answer 1

I have like no idea about this. xD

Answer 2

I do not know what that is.

Answer 3

It's a type of poetry.

Answer 4

Examples of Rhymed Tetrameter Couplets
William Shakespeare’s “Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun” is a perfect example of a rhymed tetrameter couplet. When reading it aloud, you can hear the rhythm: FEAR no MORE the HEAT o’ THE sun / NOR the FURious WINters RAGes. Note that, in this poem, “furious” is read with only two syllables. Each line has four sets of trochaic feet, and the couplet, although it does not rhyme, creates a complete thought. The stanza includes another parallel couplet that completes the whole grammatical sentence and creates the first rhyme pattern, followed by a rhyming couplet that is its own sentence. Other examples to explore include Thomas Hardy’s “Channel Firing” and Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress.”

Answer 5

In poetry, a rhymed tetrameter couplet indicates a rhyming pattern within a specific number of lines that have a specific number of metered feet. The key to rhymed tetrameter couplets is a consistent rhythm and rhyme pattern throughout the poem.

Answer 6

I think I understand trochees, but I am confused what a couplet is.

Answer 7

A couplet is a pair of lines of metre in poetry. Couplets usually comprise two lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (or closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line of verse.

Answer 8

So it's 2 lines of trochaic pentameter that have to rhyme at the end.

Answer 9

I think so try coming up with something and I will revise it :)

Answer 10

Song: “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun”
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(from Cymbeline)

Fear no more the heat o’ the sun,
Nor the furious winter’s rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

Fear no more the frown o’ the great;
Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke;
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The scepter, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.

Fear no more the lightning flash,
Nor the all-dreaded thunder stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan:
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.

No exorciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have;
And renownèd be thy grave!

Answer 11

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