Question
Select the correct answer.
What is the meter pattern in these lines from "On Imagination" by Phillis Wheatley?
Imagination! who can sing thy force?
Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?
A.
trochaic tetrameter
B.
iambic pentameter
C.
spondaic hexameter
D.
anapestic pentameter
E.
iambic hexameter
What is the meter pattern in these lines from "On Imagination" by Phillis Wheatley?
Imagination! who can sing thy force?
Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?
A.
trochaic tetrameter
B.
iambic pentameter
C.
spondaic hexameter
D.
anapestic pentameter
E.
iambic hexameter
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The correct answer is **B. iambic pentameter**.
In these lines, you can observe that each line typically has five pairs of syllables, with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, characteristic of iambic meter.
In these lines, you can observe that each line typically has five pairs of syllables, with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, characteristic of iambic meter.