Prosody

[itsneha]

Hello,

I am trying to understand prosody. Could you please comment on the prosodic features of the following passages from different poems.

Thank you!

A) Tell me not in mournful numbers

life is but an empty dream:

for the soul is dead that slumbers

and things are not what they seem.

Lines from the poem- A Paslm of life by Longfellow.



B) How fleet is the glance of the mind

Compared with the speed of its flight!

The tempest itself lags behind

And the swift winged arrows of light.

Poem- Verses by William Cowper



C) One more unfortunate

Weary of breath

Rashly importunate

Gone to her death!

Poem - The bridge of sighs by Thomas Hood



D) Confusion shame remorse despair

At once his bosom swell

The damps of death bedewed his brow

he shook, he groaned, he fell.

Poem - Colin and Lucy be Thomas Tickell.

[priyrasta]

hi,

i need some help with the same poems you have mentioned, so if you have time could you help me? or mail your observations? thanks
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[AuntShecky]

What exactly did you request? Did you want us to identify
the meter or scan each line?