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from Tamburlaine the Great, Act III, Scene 2,
Christopher Marlowe So fares Agydas for the late-felt frowns,
That send a tempest to my daunted thoughts,
And make my soul divine her overthrow. (lines 51–53)

Which of the following best analyzes the prosody of the lines?

1. Character of Lines: prose
How I Know: They are not rhymed.
2. Character of Lines: blank verse
How I Know: They are written in varying meters.
3. Character of Lines: blank verse
How I Know: They are written in iambic pentameter.
4. Character of Lines: prose
How I Know: They do not have any recognizable meter.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
3.

These lines are blank verse — Marlowe’s usual unrhymed iambic pentameter. Each line has five principal stresses (pentameter) and scans largely as a sequence of iambs, with only minor metrical substitutions/inversions typical of Elizabethan blank verse. For example:

- That SEND | a TEM | pest TO | my DAUN | ted THOUGHTS (five stresses)
- And MAKE | my SOUL | diVINE | her O'VER | THROW (five stresses)

So the correct characterization is blank verse written in iambic pentameter.