Question

We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: "Stay where you are until our backs are turned!" We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. What feature of this excerpt makes it blank verse? It has a rhyming pattern. It has iambic pentameter. It does not use everyday language. It is about nature.

Answer 1

The feature of this excerpt that makes it a blank verse is:

B. It has iambic pentameter.

Step-by-step explanation:

A poem written in blank verse will not have a rhyming scheme. However, it will have regular metrical lines. It does not have to be iambic pentameter, as is the case here. The author can choose any type of meter and maintain it throughout the poem. Among the options provided, we can eliminate letter A, since we already know blank verse does not rhyme. Letters C and D focus on things that are completely unrelated to blank verse, since it is not about the language or the theme. Therefore, the best option is letter B. It has iambic pentameter, because is shows the meter chosen by this author. Take a look at the lines below:

We wear our fingers rough with handling them.

Oh, just another kind of out-door game