iambic tetrameter [B] iambic pentameter [C] trochaic tetrameter [D] trochaic pentameter Here are four lines from a short poem: I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend. /And I keep hearing from the cellar bin/The rumbling sound/Of load on load of apples coming in. The poem must be ...
The poem is structured as a series of six stanzas, each consisting of four lines. The rhyme scheme is ABAB, and the meter is iambic tetrameter, which means that each line contains four iambs or metrical feet, with each iamb consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by...