The tension between Yeats' use of a more traditional form and the inevitability of change, which overcomes him, is also evoked through the lack of consistent meter, where he shifts between the iambic pentameter, "The bell-beat of their wings above my head", tetrameter, "among what rushes they build" and trimeter, "mirrors a still sky". ... Furthermore, his experimentation with trochaic, 'turning and turning in the widening gyre" and iambic pentameter, "the falcon cannot hear the falconer" in the opening lines emulates this "reel"...

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Rather than writing a fourteen line poem with three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter like every sonnet of the time, Carew writes "A Song" in twenty lines of paired, short couplets in iambic tetrameter. ...

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These ( discussed) poems both carry definite features of metaphysical poetry, this is evident as the composer uses as variety of sound devices such as colloquial language, iambic tetrameters and rhyming couplets are used to portray that the persona's in both 'to his coy mistress" and "a dialogue between body and soul"( remember to keep capitalization it is a title) as beings of wit and intellect while keeping an atmosphere that has a more comfortable tone of a conversation. ...

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