Question

His own parents, He that had father'd him, and she that had conceiv'd him in her womb, and birth'd him, They gave this child more of themselves than that; They gave him afterward every day—they became part of him. This excerpt from "There Was a Child Went Forth" contains an example of which of the following?

1. connotative language
2. free verse
3.iambic pentameter
4.rhyme scheme

Answer 1

2. Free Verse

Poetry that uses free verse does not have any sort of standard meter or rhyme scheme. If you look at this passage, the first line has 4 syllables, the second has 19, the third has 10, and the fourth has 15. Technically the second and fourth lines "rhyme" (although it's just repetition of the same word, not a straightforward rhyme), but there is not enough pattern in the number of syllables or the meter to create a musical feeling.