iambic tetrameter

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In The Road Not Taken
Written in iambic tetrameter, it employs an abaab rhyme scheme in each of its four stanzas. The poem presents a narrator recalling a journey through a woods, when he had to choose which of two diverging roads to travel. The work’s meaning has long been disputed by…
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In Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
…poem is composed of four iambic tetrameter quatrains, and the meditative lyric derives its incantatory tone from an interlocking rhyme scheme of aaba bbcb ccdc dddd.
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In tetrameter
Iambic tetrameter is, next to iambic pentameter, the most common metre in English poetry; it is used in the English and Scottish traditional ballads, which are usually composed of four-line stanzas of alternating iambic tetrameter and trimeter.
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