06-18-2013, 04:03 PM
so these are iambic line as well?
I had an unborn son. At eighteen weeks (how does this line have three iambs? ) i guess i'm scanning it wrong, i can almost get three but fail.
Christine and I, we wove our hands. I swept
her cheeks and kept my eyes fixed on her wet
no cure for this regret: Inside that speck
so let me get this right. a poem of iambic pentameter only has to have three iambs per line?
so all this time i've actually been writing in iambic pent when people have said i wasn't?
i realise that shakespeare threw in an odd spanner or two and i've done the same but three iambs per line makes it iambic pentameter seems a bit of a cheat. thanks for the enlightenment
I had an unborn son. At eighteen weeks (how does this line have three iambs? ) i guess i'm scanning it wrong, i can almost get three but fail.
Christine and I, we wove our hands. I swept
her cheeks and kept my eyes fixed on her wet
no cure for this regret: Inside that speck
so let me get this right. a poem of iambic pentameter only has to have three iambs per line?
so all this time i've actually been writing in iambic pent when people have said i wasn't?
i realise that shakespeare threw in an odd spanner or two and i've done the same but three iambs per line makes it iambic pentameter seems a bit of a cheat. thanks for the enlightenment