Having in mind that meter is the count of the stresses felt in a poem's rhythm, She walks in beauty shows four stresses on each line which is commonly called a tetrameter. "The unit of poetic meter is the foot, a unit of measure consisting of stressed and unstressed syllables"(Di Yanni, 533). because the four stressed syllables on each line are preceded by an unstressed syllable the poetic foot is iambic. By this it is seen that the poem is written in an iambic tetrameter form. ...

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It has a unique meter and rhyme scheme, unlike the common iambic pentameter used in England at the time this poem was written. It is written in iambic tetrameter and it thoroughly makes use of end rhymes in couplets ("twos"). ...

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