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Read the excerpt from "Song" by Muriel Rukeyser.

Make and be eaten, the poet says,
Lie in the arms of nightlong fire,
To celebrate the waking, wake.
Burn in the daylong light; and praise
Even the mother unappeased,
Even the fathers of desire

This excerpt is an example of
heroic couplet.
blank verse.
common meter.
free verse.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Free verse.

The lines have no regular meter (not iambic pentameter or the 8-6 pattern of common meter) and no consistent rhyme scheme, so the excerpt is free verse.