Checkpoint: Comparing Structure in Prose and Poetry

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Which sets of lines from a poem contain free verse?

Select two that apply.

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from "Instructing Atalanta":
Listen to mother.
Leave those apples lie.
You cannot eat them,
they will only take up space
on your mantle, too dusty
to glitter anymore.
from "Instructing Atalanta": Listen to mother. Leave those apples lie. You cannot eat them, they will only take up space on your mantle, too dusty to glitter anymore.

from "Roads Go Ever Ever On":
Roads go ever ever on,
Under cloud and under star.
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
from "Roads Go Ever Ever On": Roads go ever ever on, Under cloud and under star. Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar.

from "A Journey":
It's a journey ... that I propose ... I am not the guide ... nor technical assistant ... I will be your fellow passenger ...
from "A Journey": It's a journey ... that I propose ... I am not the guide ... nor technical assistant ... I will be your fellow passenger ...

from "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud":
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay: …

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from "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud": Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: ...