How many syllables are in each line? In the chill spring air clouds white with the full moon's light move slowly, slowly. The moon, the...

A syllable is
"a unit of organization for a
sequence of speech sounds."  In English, "a
syllable is typically made up
of...a vowel...with optional initial and
final...consonants".  The easiest
way to determine the number of syllables in a word is to
say it slowly and
count the number of 'beats' the word has.  You can also try resting your hand

under your chin as you speak and count the number of times your chin drops.  For
instance, each
word is one syllabe in the first two lines of your poem. 
Dispite the difference in word length,
each word contains only one syllable. 
The word slowly, however, contains two syllables.  Note
the difference
between the words spring and slowly.  Spring has only one vowel while slowly
has
two.  Sometimes a word has more than one vowel per syllable.  For
instance, the word mountains
contains two syllable even though it has four
vowels.  Notice that with the word mountains the
vowels are separated into
two groups by consonants.  The same separation can be found in the
three
syllable word katydid.  Each group of consonants and vowels forms a separate

syllable.