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21 October, 07:37

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?

trochaic tetrameter

iambic pentameter

spondaic hexameter

anapestic pentameter

iambic hexameter

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  1. 21 October, 07:44
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    The correct answer among the choices provided is the second option. Iambic pentameter was the meter pattern used in "On Imagination". Aside from iambic pentameter, Phyllis Wheatley also uses couplet and heroic form in her poems. Wheatley was an eighteenth-century black slave.
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