vertciel
04-13-2008, 10:15 AM
Hello everyone,
I am reading an analysis of William Blake's "A Poison Tree", available here at http://www.online-literature.com/blake/622/.
The analysis says that "Lines 1 and 3, in which the speaker expresses his anger, are trochaic. Lines 2 and 4, which tell of the speaker's action, are iambic, ...".
I know that a trochee is a two-syllable metric foot and a iamb is a metric foot of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. However, could anyone explain how the lines 1 and 3 are trochaic, and how lines 2 and 4 are iambic?
Thank you.
I am reading an analysis of William Blake's "A Poison Tree", available here at http://www.online-literature.com/blake/622/.
The analysis says that "Lines 1 and 3, in which the speaker expresses his anger, are trochaic. Lines 2 and 4, which tell of the speaker's action, are iambic, ...".
I know that a trochee is a two-syllable metric foot and a iamb is a metric foot of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. However, could anyone explain how the lines 1 and 3 are trochaic, and how lines 2 and 4 are iambic?
Thank you.