Question

Determine the meter of the following line.

Understand he's the one in the choir.

trochaic
iambic
anapestic
dactylic

Answer 1

anapestic
Anapestic is unstressed, unstressed, stressed. un-der-STAND he's the ONE in the CHOIR.

Answer 2

The correct option is C. Anapestic .

Anapestic tetrameter is a poetic meter that has four anapestic metrical feet per line. Each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable.

iThe pattern would be: unstressed + unstressed syllable+ stressed syllable. un-der-STAND he's the ONE in the CHOIR.

Anapestic tetrameter is a rhythm implemented for comic verse. Anapestic tetrameter is often highly regular.