evaho88
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Can someone please help me with the following poem:
Sign no more, ladies (by William Shakspeare)
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny, nonny.
Sing no more ditties, sing no moe
Of dumps so dull and heavy,
The fraud of men was ever so,
Since summer first was leavy.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey, nonny, nonny.
I can't figure out what kind of metrical pattern is using in this poem:
1) is this Iamb/Trochaic/Dactylic/Anapest or other?
2) it seems the syllabels are varied in different lines too...is this dimeter/trimeter/tetrameter/pentameter or other?
Thanks for any advise.:-D
Sign no more, ladies (by William Shakspeare)
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny, nonny.
Sing no more ditties, sing no moe
Of dumps so dull and heavy,
The fraud of men was ever so,
Since summer first was leavy.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey, nonny, nonny.
I can't figure out what kind of metrical pattern is using in this poem:
1) is this Iamb/Trochaic/Dactylic/Anapest or other?
2) it seems the syllabels are varied in different lines too...is this dimeter/trimeter/tetrameter/pentameter or other?
Thanks for any advise.:-D