Question

Type your response in the box. Reread the poem "Winter-Time" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Then copy and paste the last two stanzas into the answer field and scan them. Identify the stressed and unstressed syllables as well as the meter. When you scan the stanzas, remember to highlight or bold the stressed syllables and place foot markers in the appropriate spots. Here's the first stanza of the poem as an example: Late lies | the win | try sun | a-bed, A fros | ty, fie | ry sleep | y-head; Blinks but | an hour ǀ or two; | and then, A blood | -red or| ange, sets | again.

Answer 1

When to / go out, / my nurse / doth wrap /

(iambic tetrameter)

Me in / my com/forter /and cap;

(trochaic tetrameter)

The cold / wind burns / my face, / and blows

(iambic tetrameter)

Its fros/ty pe/pper up / my nose./

(iambic tetrameter)

Black are / my steps / on sil/ver sod;

(trochaic tetrameter)

Thick blows / my fros/ty breath / abroad;

(iambic tetrameter)

And tree and house, and hill and lake,

(iambic tertrameter)

Are frosted like a wedding-cake.

(iambic tetrameter)

Explanation: A foot in poetry, is a repeated pattern of meter composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables. In the last stanzas of the poem, the predominant metrical feet are iambic (stressed on the second syllable of the feet, for example: "And tree and house, and hill and lake"), and trochaic (stressed on the first syllable of the feet, for example: "Black are / my steps / on sil/ver sod"). All of the lines have a tetrameter length, which means each one has 4 feet.