... and unstressed syllables"(Di Yanni, 533). because the four stressed syllables on each line are preceded by an unstressed syllable the poetic foot is iambic. By this it is seen that the poem is written in an iambic tetrameter form. The tone encountered in Lord Byron's poem, is the tone of voice of an inspired man by love and physical attraction. It is ... ...
... taken from this. In stanza one the middle six lines are framed by two pairs of couplets and have several disyllabic and trisyallabic variations. These six lines are written in iambic trimeter, which allow for "normal- reading. Even more interesting is how all these lines end with amphimacers. The framing of these lines give the sense of impending danger, thought, experience ... is evil and that the two cannot exist without the other. This is not to say that Blake himself believes there is only good and evil. For a poem written in iambic tetrameter and anapestic trimeter the poem does op...
