In this excerpt from Robert Burns’s poem “A Red, Red Rose,” which two lines are written in iambic trimeter? (An iambic trimeter pattern contains an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The pattern repeats three times per line.)
O my Luve’s like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June:
O my Luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune!
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry:
Answers
In the above excerpt from Robert Burns’s poem “A Red, Red Rose,” the two lines which are written in iambic trimeter are:
“That’s newly sprung in June:”
and
“That’s sweetly play’d in tune!”
[An iambic trimeter is a form of metrical line in which the line contains three iambic feet. An iamb is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed.]
The two lines that are written in iambic trimeter are "That’s newly sprung in June" and "As fair art thou, my bonnie lass".
In the former one, there are three iambs instead of four but it still qualifies as an iambic trimeter.
It is a classic ballad that is used in many forms of music and poetry to this day.
The first eight lines of the poem are written in ballad meter while the last eight lines are written in common meter.