Question

choose the poem that uses trochaic meter. double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and caldron bubble. cool it with a baboons blood, then the charm is firm and good. and oft some distant tinkling tells of muleteers, with wagon bells that jangle sweet across the maize, and green agave stalks that raise from william shakespeare, \macbeth\ and from evaleen stein, \in mexico\

Explanation:

Trochaic meter consists of trochees. A trochee is a metrical foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. In the first poem ("Double, double toil and trouble..."), we can analyze the syllables. For example, "Double" - the first syllable "Dou" is stressed, and "ble" is unstressed (a trochee). "Toil" (stressed) and "trouble" (unstressed part "ble") - also follows the trochaic pattern. In the second poem ("And oft some distant tinkling tells..."), the meter is more iambic (unstressed - stressed pattern in many of its feet). For example, "And" (unstressed) - "oft" (stressed) is an iamb.

Answer:

The first poem (from William Shakespeare, "Macbeth") uses trochaic meter.