Question

What is the meter of this line from “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley?

The wing | èd seeds | where they | lie cold | and low,

A. trochaic pentameter (The foot has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. This pattern repeats five times in the line.)

B. trochaic tetrameter (The foot has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. This pattern repeats four times in the line.)

C. iambic tetrameter (The foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. This pattern repeats four times in the line.)

D. iambic pentameter (The foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. This pattern repeats five times in the line.)

Answer 1

Answer:

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iambic tetrameter

Answer 2

Answer:

B. trochaic tetrameter (The foot has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. This pattern repeats four times in the line.)

Explanation:

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