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" (stressed - "Dou", unstressed - "ble"), "double" (stressed - "Dou", unstressed - "ble"), "toil" (stressed), "trouble" (stressed - "trou", unstressed - "ble"), "Fire" (stressed), "burn" (stressed), "caldron" (stressed - "cal", unstressed - "dron"), "bubble" (stressed - "bub", unstressed - "ble"), "Cool" (stressed), "it" (unstressed), "baboon's" (stressed - "ba", unstressed - "boon's"), "blood" (stressed), "Then" (stressed), "charm" (stressed), "firm" (stressed), "good" (stressed).

In the second poem, the meter is not trochaic. For example, "And" (unstressed), "oft" (stressed) starts with an unstressed syllable which is not characteristic of trochaic meter.

Answer:

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