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AP English Literature and Composition 1.9 Passage Drill 4. Lines 32-34 are best understood to mean what?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill 5. Which line indicates the turn or shift in this poem?
According to the information presented in the first and second paragraph (lines 1-26), it can be reasonably inferred that the kingdom of the Luggna...
AP English Literature: Meter in Successive Couplets 12 Views
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Written in a single stanza of 24 lines, the poem's successive couplets are structured according to what kind of meter?
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- 00:00
Sorry Okay More AP English lit for you a couple
- 00:06
more here Here we go written in a single stands
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up twenty four lines The poems Successive couplets are structured
- 00:26
according to what kind of meter European system otherwise would
- 00:31
be a kind of yard Well let's think about this
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- 00:34
Though the poem may look tightly structured with those rhyming
- 00:37
couplets there isn't a consistent meter which makes it free
- 00:41
verse writes like a rapper The speaker goes wherever the
- 00:44
metrical winds take him so that's it It's e free
- 00:47
verse Iambic pentameter is very common but it's not used
- 00:51
in this poem So get rid of egg and the
- 00:52
same goes for I am big Try neater B another
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type of meter and the Rondo D which is actually
- 00:58
a poetic form like a sonnet or a villain L
- 01:02
common measure as in sea there is a four line
- 01:05
rhyming stanzas which also doesn't apply here All those come
- 01:08
out of the blue and they're just testing your vocab
- 01:10
skills If you need help on that go look at
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billion dollars So please advertise it anyway That's it The
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answer is E as in free verse like Free Willy
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