Hey poetry people! Can you find the rhythm of each of the lines of this poem?

The rhythm of the line is the stressed syllables of the line (try clapping as you read it!) The lines of the poem are numbered so when you answer give the number of beats next to the correct number. Here is the poem:





On being asked, Whence is the flower?





1.In May, when sea-winds pierced our solitudes,


2.I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods,


3.Spreading its leafless blooms in a damp nook,


4.To please the desert and the sluggish brook.


5.The purple petals, fallen in the pool,


6.Made the black water with their beauty gay;


7.Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool,


8.And court the flower that cheapens his array.


9.Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why


10.This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,


11.Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,


12.Then Beauty is its own excuse for being:


13.Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!


14.I never thought to ask, I never knew:


15.But, in my simple ignorance, suppose


16.The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.

Hey poetry people! Can you find the rhythm of each of the lines of this poem?
That's mostly in iambic pattern.
Reply:Yes, very nice