1. Ben Shapiro P.1 AP Literature Mrs. Patterson 10 March 2012

2.  Iambic Pentameter follows a pattern of unstressed, stressed symbols:  u/u/u/u/u/ (pattern found in a sonnet)

3. / U / U / U / U / U One of my wishes is that those dark trees, / U / U / U / U / U So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, / U / U / U / U / U Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, / U / U / U / U / U But stretched away unto the edge of doom.

4. / U / U / U / U / U What here is this rumbling of all dark sounds? / U / U / U / U / U Will God bring Hell up? To us the People? / U / U / U / U / The ring and rumble strike deep in our towns. / U / U / U / U / U Nothing remains, for he left his steeple.

5. Frost, Robert. "Robert Frost (1874-1963)." Robert Frost. 20 Jan. 1997. Web. 10 Mar. 2012.. Meyer, Michael. "Poetic Forms." The Bedford introduction to literature: reading, thinking, writing. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2005. 915. Print.