Question

Choose the poem that uses trochaic meter.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying, Never finding full repast Till I eat the world at last.

"Sing while you may, O bird upon the tree!
Although on high, wide-winged above the day,
Chill evening broadens to immensity,
Sing while you may."

Answer 1

The poem using trochaic meter is the one with the pattern of stressed followed by unstressed syllables, 'Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying, Never finding full repast Till I eat the world at last.'

Step-by-step explanation:

The poem that uses trochaic meter is:

Ever eating, never cloying,
All-devouring, all-destroying,
Never finding full repast
Till I eat the world at last.

Trochaic meter is characterized by a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, which can be seen in the poem's pattern of stressed ('Ever') followed by unstressed ('eating'). In contrast, iambic meter, which is the opposite (unstressed followed by stressed), is not demonstrated in this selection.