The phrase "<em>Beside the sea an old grey dog</em>"<em> </em>presents iambic tetrameter.
Iambic tetrameter consists of four iambic feet, each one with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
The stressed syllables are presented as follows (stresses syllables are in all capitals):
beSIDE the SEA an OLD grey DOG - da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM
As we rode in the bus in the weird phosphorescent void of the Lincoln Tunnel we leaned on each other with fingers waving and yelled and talked excitedly, and I was beginning to get the bug like Dean. He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life, and though he was a con-man, he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and to get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him. What does this excerpt demonstrate <span>about the culture of the beat generation? I would say the answer is"Beat artists most desired direct and varied life experiences" based on the behaviour of the beat artist mentioned above.</span>
The queen was trying to
<span>persuade the troops</span>
The sentence that describes a poem's meter is c. there are 14 syllables in each line. The meter in a poem describes the number of feet in a line and its rhythmic structure. You can identify the type of meter in a poem by identifying the number and type of syllables in a line. Thus, you can determine the type of poem, such as ballad, sonnet or Sapphic poem.
