Question

choose the poem that uses trochaic meter. on the rim of a skyscrapers forehead i looked down and saw: hats: fifty thousand hats: swarming with a noise of bees and sheep, cattle and waterfalls, stopping with a silence of sea grass, a silence of prairie corn. bounding billow, cease thy motion, bear me not so swiftly over! cease thy roaring, foamy ocean! i will tempt thy rage no more.

Explanation:

A trochaic meter consists of trochees, which are metrical feet with a stressed - unstressed pattern. Analyzing the second poem, "Bounding billow, cease thy motion," shows a consistent stressed - unstressed pattern throughout. In the first poem, there is no such consistent trochaic pattern.

Answer:

The second poem: "Bounding billow, cease thy motion, Bear me not so swiftly over! Cease thy roaring, foamy ocean! I will tempt thy rage no more."