![]() Synonyms: iambic pentameter, metre, alliteration, O, meter. My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. The act of scanning distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise. That music hath a far more pleasing sound I love to hear her speak, yet well I know Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I have seen roses damasked, red and white,Īnd in some perfumes is there more de light If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun ![]() My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun Ĭo ral is far more red than her lips' red ![]() Here is Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare. Sonnets are written in iambic pentameter, so the scansion is made easy because the lines have five feet with a pattern of unstressed, stressed syllables. While I nodded, nearly napping, sudden ly there came a tapping,Īs of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Over many a quaint and curious volume of for gotten lore, 2006 - WordNet 3.0 2011 - English Dictionary Database 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language. Once up on a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
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