Scan the following stanza in iambic tetrameter. Mark the syllables, separate the feet with short vertical lines, and indicate the rhyme scheme:...

Iambic tetrameter describes a particular rhythm in each
line. The rhythm is measured in feet, small groups of syllables. Iambic describes the
type of foot, and tetrameter tells us that there are four feet in each line. An iambic
foot consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. An unstressed
syllable is marked by a breve ( ˘ ), and a stressed syllable is marked with a forward
slash ( / ). The first line would be marked as
follows:

                ˘      /       ˘      
/       ˘      /      ˘      / 
              But could / youth last, / and
love / still breed,

Each combination of an unstressed and a
stressed syllable equals one foot. Putting a short vertical line between each makes it
easier to see how many feet there are in a line.

Rhyme
scheme refers to the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem. Letters, starting with
(a), indicate which lines rhyme. For these lines, we are referring to the words at the
end of each line that rhyme. Look at the last word of each line and see what other line
that word rhymes with. "Breed" rhymes with need, so those two lines are marked with (a).
The last two lines rhyme, so they are marked with (b). Your rhyme scheme for these four
lines would be aabb. If you are determining the rhyme scheme for the whole poem,
however, these letters would be different.

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