A Prayer for My Daughter its "metremes", or rhymical motifs, rather than common metrical devices. The poem also may be read to consist of straightforward iambic verse that relies on common metrical devices such as elision, acephalous lines, promotion, and metrical inversion. Lines 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 of each stanza are iambic pentameter; lines 4, 6, and 7 are iambic tetrameter. For instance, using traditional principles of scansion, stanza two may be scanned as shown below, where syllables in all caps represent metrical beats, lower-case syllables represent metrical off-beats, the vertical bar represents the termination of a metrical foot, and apostrophes represent elisions.
Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day "Lines Composed In A Wood On A Windy Day" is a poem by Anne Brontë. Brontë's love of the sea is expressed in this poem. In it, the sea is portrayed as "the great liberator". The line "the long withered grass in the sunshine is glancing" and the footnote she wrote at the bottom of the poem reveals that Brontë "loved wild weather, as she loved the sea, and hard country and snow". The poem further indicates the power and spiritual affect of the wind. The errors in punctuation on lines