Question

Read the line from "Do not go gentle into that good night."

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
The meter, if any, from this line is
iambic pentameter
iambic tetrameter
iambic hexameter
no regular meter

Answer 1

The meter of the line is iambic tetrameter.

Step-by-step explanation:

The meter of the line 'Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight' from the poem 'Do not go gentle into that good night' is iambic tetrameter. In iambic tetrameter, there are four metrical feet, or iambs, in each line. An iamb consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. In this line, there are four iambs: 'Wild men,' 'who caught,' 'and sang,' 'the sun.'

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