Which describes the emphasized line in the following excerpt?
Strew on her roses, roses,
And never a spray of yew
In quiet she reposes
Ah, would that I did too!
trimeter
pentameter
hexameter
heptameter
Strew on her roses, roses,
And never a spray of yew
In quiet she reposes
Ah, would that I did too!
trimeter
pentameter
hexameter
heptameter
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Answer in explanation:
The emphasized phrase is a pentameter.
It is a pentameter because it has five stressed syllables; hence the definition of pentameter. Pentameters are fairly easy to identify.
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