Emily Dickinson's poems in translation/Polish/Success is Counted Sweetest/Scansion

Scansion of the poem J67 - Success is counted sweetest

Listen carefully and check against the recording: A woman and a man reading

Verse with rhythmic pattern	Type of metre	Rhyme pattern
Suc CESS \| is COUNT \| ed SWEET \| est By THOSE \| who NE'ER \| suc CEED To COM \| pre HEND \| a NEC \| tar Re QUI \| res SO \| rest NEED Not ONE \| of ALL \| the PUR \| ple Host Who TOOK/ the FLAG/ toDAY Can TELL/ the DEFINI/ tion So CLEAR/ of VIC/ tory AS he/ DEFEAted/ Dying ON whose/ FOR bidden/ EAR The DIST/ ant STRAINS/ of TRI/ umph - Burst A/ goNIZED/ and CLE/ar	iambic tetrameter iambic trimeter iambic tetrameter iambic trimeter iambic tetrameter iambic trimeter iambic trimeter iambic trimeter trochaic trimeter trochaic trimeter iambic tetrameter iambic tetrameter	X A X A X B X B X C X C

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Lower Case - unstressed syllable
Upper case - stressed syllable
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