Name the dominant meter of the following quatrain : The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The…
Gray’s lines normally contain five iambic feet, producing iambic pentameter. Hexameter has six feet, trochaic pentameter reverses the dominant stress pattern, and terza rima…
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Name the dominant meter of the following quatrain :
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
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Correct answer C
Gray’s lines normally contain five iambic feet, producing iambic pentameter. Hexameter has six feet, trochaic pentameter reverses the dominant stress pattern, and terza rima is a rhyme scheme rather than this metre.
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