Question

Someone please

Match the lines from the poems to the meter used.


anapestic tetrameter

iambic tetrameter

iambic pentameter


Murmuring how she loved me — she

Too weak, for all her heart's endeavor,

To set its struggling passion free

From pride, and vainer ties dissever,

And give herself to me forever.

(excerpt from “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning)


Quite clear to such an one, and say, “Just this

Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss,

Or there exceed the mark”—and if she let

Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set

(excerpt from “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning)


For only last night, as they whispered, I brought

My own eyes to bear on her so, that I thought

Could I keep them one half minute fixed, she would fall

Shrivelled; she fell not; yet this does it all!

(excerpt from “The Laboratory” by Robert Browning)

Answer 1

first is iambic tetrameter

second is iambic pentameter

third is anapestic tetrameter

Step-by-step explanation:

I just tried the stresses out on each. Pretty sure this is right. But if you want to check, iambic pentameter has 10 syllables in each line and has 5 iambs. Iambic tetrameter has 4 iambs, and anapestic tetrameter has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one.

Hope this helps :))