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Sonnet 8 - The Iamb
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05-12-2014, 03:17 PM
Roger Slater
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I hadn't looked closely at the meter, since it all read smoothly. Now that I focus on L5, I think the stress is naturally drawn to "to", the first syllable, which is why I heard/hear the line as pentameter.
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