Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
What feature of this excerpt makes it blank verse?
It has a rhyming pattern.
It has iambic pentameter.
It does not use everyday language.
It is about nature.
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This excerpt is in iambic pentameter that makes it a blank verse.
Blank verse is a literary device. It is un-rhyming in pattern and often written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines and ten syllables. The syllables are structured as stressed syllables follow unstressed ones.
The other options cannot be correct because blank verse does not rhyme, and not necessarily written in everyday language. There is no boundary on the topic of a blank verse. I may or may not be a nature poem.
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