Question

What is the meter of the following poetic passage?

I have searched in my heart for an answer to give
But the words that i find there are hollow and dull.

A. trochaic pentameter
B. anapestic tetrameter
C. iambic hexameter
D. dactylic tetrameter

Answer 1

I am pretty sure that the meter of the following poetic passage is B. anapestic tetrameter. The thing which will make it absolutely clear (and which actually lead me to choose B as the answer) is that these lines have this pattern : da da DUM da da DUM which is characterisric of anapestic tetrameter.