Question

which of these stanzas is in blank verse?
\let us go then, you and i,
when the evening is spread out against the
sky
like a patient etherized upon a table;
let us go, through certain half - deserted
streets,
the muttering retreats\
\something there is that doesnt love a wall,
that sends the frozen - ground - swell under it,
and spills the upper boulders in the sun;
and makes gaps even two can pass
abreast.\
what characteristics suggest that the second
example is written in blank verse?

• no rhyme, ten syllables to a line, and no

pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• no rhyme, ten syllables to a line, and pairs of

syllables in which the second syllable is
stressed

• a rhyme scheme, a different number of

syllables per line, and the use of repetition

• no rhyme, a different number of syllables per

line, and a pattern of stressed and
unstressed syllables

Explanation:

Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter has ten syllables per line (five iambs, where an iamb is an unstressed - stressed syllable pair). The second stanza has no rhyme, ten syllables per line, and pairs of syllables (iambic pattern where the second syllable is stressed).

Answer:

no rhyme, ten syllables to a line, and pairs of syllables in which the second syllable is stressed