Question

PLEASE HELP!!!!

What characteristic of blank verse can you find in this line? “To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself.” A. The pause in the middle creates the singsong rhythm of poetry. B. The stress pattern is irregular and ends with a two-syllable word. C. The use of old-fashioned language makes it sound classical. D. It has ten syllables, with a stress falling on every second syllable.

Answer 1

D. It's known as iambic pentameter. Each pair of one stressed and one unstressed syllable is an iamb, or one metrical foot. 

Answer 2

The correct answer is D.

A Blank Verse is a type of poem written with a regular metrical but unrhymed lines. One of its characteristics is that it is almost always written in iambic pentameter, in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.

This verse posses the characteristic of having an iambic pentameter.