PART-1 SOLUTION TO THE PROSODY QUESTIONS OF MY YOUTUBE VIDEO ON "HOW TO SOLVE PROSODY"

                   The predominant meter used in the above extract is Iambic pentameter. The second foot of the first line, the fourth foot of the second line and the second foot of the last line are Trochaic. The fourth foot of the first line, third of the second and fourth of the last are Pyrrhic while the last foot each of the first and second lines and the first foot of the last line are Spondee.

            Iambic pentameter is used here with the following variations. The first line is Iambic trimeter. The second line is Iambic tetrameter. The first foot of the fourth line is Trochaic. The third foot of the third line is Pyrrhic. The fourth foot of the third line is Spondee. There is Elision in the first syllable of the last line.

                 Iambic pentameter is used here with the following variations. The first foot of the first line is trochaic. the fourth foot of the last line is Spondee.

                 

                 Iambic tetrameter is used here with the following variations. The first foot of the first, second, and third lines are Acephalous.

                   Anapaestic and Iambic trimeters are combined. The first foot of the second line, the second foot each of the third and fourth lines are Anapaestic and the rest are Iambic. The third line is Hyper-metrical. The first three heavily accented monosyllables of the first line from three separate feet.

            Iambic tetrameter and trimeter are used alternately. The first feet of the first and third lines are Acephalous.