Writing Exercise 5:
Scanning Verse

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Scan each of the following stanzas, marking the stressed and unstressed syllables and the metrical feet. Then give the meter and rhyme scheme for each stanza.

1. I put my hat upon my head
   And walked into the Strand.
   And there I met another man
   Whose hat was in his hand.
2. Double, double, toil and trouble
   Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
3. “O ’Melia, my dear, this does everything crown!

   Who could have supposed I should meet you in Town?
   And whence such fair garments, such prosperi-ty?”—
   “O didn’t you know I’d been ruined?” said she.
4. Take her up tenderly
   Lift her with care
   Fashioned so slenderly,
   Young and so fair.
5. Whose woods these are I think I know
   His house is in the village though,
   He will not see me stopping here
   To watch his woods fill up with snow.
6. When I consider every thing that grows
   Holds in perfection but a little moment;
   That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
   Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
7. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
   Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
   While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
   As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
   “‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door–
         Only this, and nothing more.”
8. Come live with me and be my love
   And we will all the pleasures prove
   That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
   Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
9. Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
      Men were deceivers ever;
   One foot in sea, and one on shore,
      To one thing constant never.
         Then sigh not so,
         But let them go,
      And be you blith and bonny,
   Converting all your sounds of woe
      Into Hey nonny, nonny.
10. Apparently with no surprise
    To any happy Flower
    The Frost beheads it at its play –
    In accidental power –

Due: March 5