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What is the meter pattern in these lines from "On Imagination" by Phillis Wheatley?

"Imagination! who can sing thy force?
Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?"

A. trochaic tetrameter
B. iambic pentameter
C. spondaic hexameter
D. anapestic pentameter
E. iambic hexameter



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Final answer:

The meter pattern in the lines from "On Imagination" by Phillis Wheatley is iambic tetrameter.


Explanation:

Iambic tetrameter is the meter pattern in the lines from "On Imagination" by Phillis Wheatley. This meter consists of four metrical feet per line, with each foot having two syllables – the first one unstressed and the second one stressed. An example of iambic tetrameter is found in Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."


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