Count the syllables in the lines of ‘The Divine Image’. Do you see a pattern? The first line has eight and the second line has six syllables. Two syllables make a foot in poetry. Here the first syllable of each foot is unstressed and the second syllable is stressed.
Solution and Explanation
Yes, we can see a pattern in the lines of 'The Divine Image'. The first line has eight, and the second line has six syllables. The first syllable of each foot is unstressed. The second syllable is stressed because in each foot, one of the syllables is more prominent or more substantial than the other syllable(s), and it is called the strong syllable, termed as the head syllable. The other syllables in the foot are the weak syllables.
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