Iamb

In the first stanza, the first line is broken into five feet with each foot made of iambs. The second line of the poem is also iambic pentameter with each foot consisting of iambs. The third line also follows with this consistency. This rhythmical pattern is only fitting because readers do not know the tragic incident that has happened, so the tone is very somber. However, in the second stanza which consist of three lines, the iambic pentameter does not continue. The first line follows a trochaic pentameter with each foot consisting of trochees. The second line is also a trochaic pentameter; however the last foot is an iamb to punctuate the word stride. The third line is an iambic pentameter broken into five feet with the third and fifth feet diverging from the sequence. The third foot changes into a trochee while the last two words of the fifth foot is a spondee to articulate the hard blow that the child received. The second stanza chances pattern because death is introduced to the readers and the last two words of the sentence which are “hard blow”, shows that the death is something that has happened suddenly to the family. In the third stanza, the majority of the feet are iambs, therefore this stanza is considered to be iambic pentameter. The third line of this stanza follow the strict rhythm of an iamb, while the first and second are different. In the first line, second foot, it is an iamb with a spondee on the word “cooed”; otherwise, the line is an iambic pentameter.…

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