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What is the meter pattern in these lines from "On Imagination" by Phillis Wheatley?

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it is b for all plato users


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If the lines you are referring to are:
Imagination! who can sing thy force?
Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?

Then the answer would be 'iambic pentameter'. Because iamb means that there is a sequence of first unstressed syllables, followed by stressed ones, like in this example. Pentameter means there are 10 syllables in one line, because 1 meter = 2 syllables, and penta means 5 meters = 10 syllables.
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