Monday, August 16, 2010

What are the meters of these two poems?

Exchanges, Ernest Dowson



All that I had I brought,



Little enough I know;



A poor rhyme roughly wrought,



A rose to match thy snow:



All that I had I brought.



Little enough I sought:



But a word compassionate,



A passing glance, or thought,



For me outside the gate:



Little enough I sought.



Little enough I found:



All that you had, perchance!



With the dead leaves on the ground,



I dance the devil's dance.



All that you had I found.



Witch -wife, Edna St. Vincent Millay



She is neither pink nor pale,



And she never will be all mine;



She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,



And her mouth on a valentine.



She has more hair than she needs;



In the sun 'tis a woe to me!



And her voice is a string of coloured beads,



Or steps leading into the sea.



She loves me all that she can,



And her ways to my ways resign;



But she was not made for any man,



And she never will be all mine.



Are they anapestic, iambic, or else? Also, how many feet are there in each poem?



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