Match each excerpt to the meter in which it is written.
a. love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
but bears it out even to the edge of doom.
(william shakespeare, sonnet 116)
b. she walks in beauty, like the night
of cloudless climes and starry skies;
(lord byron, “she walks in beauty”)
c. nature’s first green is gold,
her hardest hue to hold.
(robert frost, “nothing gold can stay”)
iambic trimeter →
iambic pentameter →
iambic tetrameter →