◼️ 1. What does the “clap method” help you find?
(a) Stress pattern (b) Syllable count (c) Rhyme scheme (d) Meter name
✅ Answer: (b) Syllable count.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Clap (or tap) once per vowel sound to count syllables. 👐
◼️ 2. A syllable is best defined as:
(a) A unit of meaning (b) A stressed vowel only (c) A unit of sound containing a vowel sound (d) A foot
✅ Answer: (c) A unit of sound containing a vowel sound.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Every syllable needs a vowel sound (spoken chunk). 🔤
◼️ 3. In prosody, “stress” refers to:
(a) Number of syllables in a line (b) Prominence or emphasis on a syllable (c) Rhyme type (d) Line length
✅ Answer: (b) Prominence or emphasis on a syllable.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Stressed syllables are louder/longer/clearer when spoken. 🔊
◼️ 4. Which pattern is an Iamb?
(a) S U (b) U S (c) S S (d) U U S
✅ Answer: (b) U S.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Iamb = unstressed then stressed (e.g., beGIN). 👣
◼️ 5. Which pattern is a Trochee?
(a) U S (b) S U (c) U U S (d) S U U
✅ Answer: (b) S U.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Trochee = stressed then unstressed (e.g., TAble). 🎯
◼️ 6. Which pattern represents an Anapest?
(a) S U U (b) U S (c) U U S (d) S S
✅ Answer: (c) U U S.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Anapest = two unstressed then one stressed (in-ter-VENE). 🐾
◼️ 7. Which pattern represents a Dactyl?
(a) U U S (b) S U U (c) U S (d) S S
✅ Answer: (b) S U U.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Dactyl = stressed + two unstressed (BEAU-ti-ful). 🌟
◼️ 8. What is a Spondee?
(a) U S (b) S U (c) S S (d) U U
✅ Answer: (c) S S.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Spondee = two consecutive stressed syllables (heart-break). 💥
◼️ 9. How many feet are in “pentameter”?
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6
✅ Answer: (c) 5.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 “Penta-” = five feet per line. 🔢
◼️ 10. “Iambic pentameter” means each line has:
(a) 5 trochees (b) 5 iambs (c) 4 anapests (d) irregular feet
✅ Answer: (b) 5 iambs.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Typical English poetic meter (U S ×5). 📝
◼️ 11. What is “blank verse”?
(a) Rhymed iambic pentameter (b) Unrhymed iambic pentameter (c) Free verse with rhyme (d) Trochaic tetrameter
✅ Answer: (b) Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Common in Shakespeare and Milton. 🎭
◼️ 12. A “caesura” is:
(a) A line break at stanza end (b) A pause inside a line of verse (c) A rhyme at line-end (d) A repeated word
✅ Answer: (b) A pause inside a line of verse.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Internal pause, often marked by punctuation or natural speech. ⏸️
◼️ 13. “Enjambment” means:
(a) A pause inside the line (b) Line ends with full stop always (c) Sentence runs into the next line without pause (d) Internal rhyme
✅ Answer: (c) Sentence runs into the next line without pause.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Thought continues across the line break. ➿
◼️ 14. A “masculine rhyme” refers to rhyme of:
(a) Two-syllable words with final unstressed match (b) Single stressed syllable at line end (c) Internal rhymes only (d) Eye rhymes
✅ Answer: (b) Single stressed syllable at line end.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 E.g., “stand” / “land” — final stressed syllable rhymes. 💪
◼️ 15. A “feminine rhyme” is:
(a) Rhyme on final stressed syllable only (b) Rhyme of two syllables with final unstressed syllable (c) Slant rhyme (d) Internal rhyme
✅ Answer: (b) Rhyme of two syllables with final unstressed syllable.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 E.g., “motion” / “notion” (–tion unstressed). 👭
◼️ 16. What is a “slant rhyme” (half rhyme)?
(a) Exact vowel and consonant match (b) Exact spelling match only (c) Approximate sound match, not perfect rhyme (d) Rhyme at start of line
✅ Answer: (c) Approximate sound match, not perfect rhyme.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 E.g., “room” / “storm” — similar but not exact. 🎯
◼️ 17. In scansion notation, which symbol usually marks an unstressed syllable?
(a) / or S (b) U or × (c) # (d) *
✅ Answer: (b) U or ×.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 U (or ×) = unstressed; / or S = stressed. ✍️
◼️ 18. What is an “anacrusis”?
(a) A required final stressed syllable (b) An extra unstressed syllable at the start of a line (c) A type of rhyme scheme (d) A repeated foot
✅ Answer: (b) An extra unstressed syllable at the start of a line.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Also called a pickup syllable before the regular meter begins. 🎵
◼️ 19. “Catalexis” describes a line that is:
(a) Lacking a final unstressed syllable (incomplete foot) (b) Having an extra final syllable (c) Fully regular meter (d) Always trochaic
✅ Answer: (a) Lacking a final unstressed syllable (incomplete foot).
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 A catalectic line is metrically shortened at the end. ✂️
◼️ 20. A “pyrrhic” foot is:
(a) S S (two stresses) (b) U U (two unstressed syllables) (c) U S (d) S U U
✅ Answer: (b) U U (two unstressed syllables).
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Rarely appears alone; often combined with other feet.
◼️ 21. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
(a) Trochaic tetrameter (b) Iambic pentameter (c) Anapestic trimeter (d) Dactylic pentameter
✅ Answer: (b) Iambic pentameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 10 syllables, pattern = U S ×5 (Shall I / comPARE / thee TO / a SUM / mer’s DAY).
◼️ 22. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”
(a) Iambic pentameter (b) Trochaic octameter (c) Anapestic tetrameter (d) Dactylic hexameter
✅ Answer: (b) Trochaic octameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 8 feet, S U pattern (“ONCE u / PON a / MID night / DREA ry / WHILE I / PON dered / WEAK and / WEAR y”).
◼️ 23. “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day”
(a) Iambic pentameter (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Anapestic trimeter (d) Iambic tetrameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic pentameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 10 syllables, U S ×5 (“the CUR / few TOLLS / the KNELL / of PART / ing DAY”).
◼️ 24. “And miles to go before I sleep”
(a) Iambic tetrameter (b) Iambic trimeter (c) Trochaic tetrameter (d) Anapestic dimeter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 8 syllables, U S ×4 (“and MILES / to GO / beFORE / I SLEEP”).
◼️ 25. “Break, break, break, / On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!”
(a) Spondaic + Iambic (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Iambic pentameter (d) Dactylic trimeter
✅ Answer: (a) Spondaic + Iambic.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Opening “BREAK BREAK BREAK” = stressed stressed stressed (spondaic effect), then shifts to iambic rhythm.
◼️ 26. “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house”
(a) Iambic pentameter (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Anapestic tetrameter (d) Dactylic tetrameter
✅ Answer: (c) Anapestic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 U U S ×4 (“’twas the NIGHT / beFORE CHRIST / mas when ALL / through the HOUSE”).
◼️ 27. “This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemlocks”
(a) Trochaic hexameter (b) Iambic pentameter (c) Dactylic hexameter (d) Anapestic pentameter
✅ Answer: (c) Dactylic hexameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 S U U ×6 (“THIS is the / FORest pri / MEval the / MURmuring / PINES and the / HEMlocks”).
◼️ 28. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep”
(a) Iambic tetrameter (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Iambic trimeter (d) Anapestic tetrameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 U S ×4 (“the WOODS / are LOV / ly DARK / and DEEP”).
◼️ 29. “Tyger Tyger, burning bright”
(a) Trochaic tetrameter (b) Iambic trimeter (c) Anapestic dimeter (d) Spondaic trimeter
✅ Answer: (a) Trochaic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 S U ×4 (“TYger / TYger / BURNing / BRIGHT”).
◼️ 30. “Because I could not stop for Death”
(a) Iambic trimeter (b) Common meter (c) Trochaic tetrameter (d) Iambic tetrameter
✅ Answer: (d) Iambic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 U S ×4 (“beCAUSE / I COULD / not STOP / for DEATH”).
◼️ 31. “Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward”
(a) Dactylic dimeter (b) Dactylic tetrameter (c) Anapestic dimeter (d) Trochaic trimeter
✅ Answer: (b) Dactylic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 S U U ×4 (“HALF a league / HALF a league / HALF a league / ONward”).
◼️ 32. “Shall I be compared to a summer’s day?”
(a) Iambic pentameter (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Iambic hexameter (d) Anapestic pentameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic pentameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 U S ×5 pattern, 10 syllables.
◼️ 33. “Hark, hark! the lark at heaven’s gate sings”
(a) Trochaic pentameter (b) Iambic tetrameter (c) Iambic pentameter (d) Spondaic trimeter
✅ Answer: (c) Iambic pentameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 10 syllables, U S ×5.
◼️ 34. “Water, water, every where”
(a) Trochaic trimeter (b) Iambic tetrameter (c) Anapestic dimeter (d) Trochaic tetrameter
✅ Answer: (d) Trochaic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 S U ×4 (“WAter / WAter / EV’ry / WHERE”).
◼️ 35. “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield”
(a) Iambic pentameter (b) Trochaic pentameter (c) Iambic tetrameter (d) Anapestic tetrameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic pentameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 10 syllables, U S ×5.
◼️ 36. “And the sound of a voice that is still”
(a) Iambic tetrameter (b) Anapestic trimeter (c) Trochaic tetrameter (d) Iambic pentameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 U S ×4.
◼️ 37. “Hope is the thing with feathers”
(a) Iambic tetrameter (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Iambic trimeter (d) Dactylic trimeter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 8 syllables, U S ×4.
◼️ 38. “Batter my heart, three-personed God”
(a) Trochaic trimeter (b) Iambic pentameter (c) Spondaic + Iambic (d) Anapestic dimeter
✅ Answer: (c) Spondaic + Iambic.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Strong stresses on “BATTER MY HEART” (spondaic effect) then iambic rhythm.
◼️ 39. “The world is too much with us; late and soon”
(a) Iambic pentameter (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Iambic hexameter (d) Anapestic tetrameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic pentameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 U S ×5.
◼️ 40. “It is a beauteous evening, calm and free”
(a) Iambic pentameter (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Anapestic tetrameter (d) Dactylic hexameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic pentameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 10 syllables, U S ×5.
◼️ 41. “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see”
What is the meter of this line?
(a) Iambic pentameter (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Anapestic pentameter (d) Iambic hexameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic pentameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 10 syllables, unstressed–stressed ×5 (“so LONG / as MEN / can BREATHE / or EYES / can SEE”).
◼️ 42. “In Flanders fields the poppies blow”
(a) Iambic trimeter (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Anapestic dimeter (d) Iambic tetrameter
✅ Answer: (d) Iambic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 U S ×4 (“in FLAN / ders FIELDS / the POP / pies BLOW”).
◼️ 43. Identify the rhyme scheme:
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row”
(a) AA (b) AB (c) BB (d) CC
✅ Answer: (a) AA.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 “blow” rhymes with “row” — both have same end sound.
◼️ 44. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate” — What is the rhyme scheme?
(a) AB (b) AA (c) ABAB (d) AABB
✅ Answer: (a) AB.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 “day” (A) and “temperate” (B) don’t rhyme.
◼️ 45. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary” — meter is:
(a) Trochaic octameter (b) Iambic pentameter (c) Anapestic tetrameter (d) Dactylic hexameter
✅ Answer: (a) Trochaic octameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 8 trochaic feet (S U pattern).
◼️ 46. Identify the rhyme scheme:
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore”
(a) AA (b) AB (c) BB (d) ABAB
✅ Answer: (b) AB.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 “weary” (A) and “lore” (B) don’t rhyme.
◼️ 47. “Because I could not stop for Death – / He kindly stopped for me –” — meter is:
(a) Iambic tetrameter (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Common meter (d) Iambic trimeter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 8 syllables, U S ×4.
◼️ 48. Rhyme scheme:
“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –”
(a) AA (b) AB (c) BB (d) AC
✅ Answer: (b) AB.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 “Death” (A) and “me” (B) do not rhyme.
◼️ 49. “Tyger Tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night” — meter is:
(a) Iambic tetrameter (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Anapestic trimeter (d) Spondaic dimeter
✅ Answer: (b) Trochaic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 S U ×4 pattern.
◼️ 50. Rhyme scheme of Q49 lines
(a) AB (b) AA (c) BB (d) CC
✅ Answer: (b) AA.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 “bright” and “night” rhyme.
◼️ 51. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep / But I have promises to keep” — meter is:
(a) Iambic trimeter (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Iambic tetrameter (d) Anapestic trimeter
✅ Answer: (c) Iambic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 8 syllables, U S ×4.
◼️ 52. Rhyme scheme of Q51 lines
(a) AA (b) AB (c) BB (d) CC
✅ Answer: (a) AA.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 “deep” rhymes with “keep”.
◼️ 53. “Break, break, break, / On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!” — meter is:
(a) Spondaic + Iambic (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Iambic pentameter (d) Anapestic tetrameter
✅ Answer: (a) Spondaic + Iambic.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Strong stresses in “BREAK BREAK BREAK” (spondaic effect) then iambic.
◼️ 54. “Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward” — meter is:
(a) Dactylic dimeter (b) Dactylic tetrameter (c) Anapestic dimeter (d) Trochaic trimeter
✅ Answer: (b) Dactylic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 S U U ×4.
◼️ 55. Rhyme scheme:
“Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward”
(a) AA (b) AB (c) BB (d) AC
✅ Answer: (b) AB.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 “league” (A) and “onward” (B) don’t rhyme.
◼️ 56. “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day” — meter is:
(a) Iambic pentameter (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Anapestic trimeter (d) Dactylic pentameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic pentameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 10 syllables, U S ×5.
◼️ 57. “Hope is the thing with feathers” — meter is:
(a) Iambic tetrameter (b) Trochaic tetrameter (c) Iambic trimeter (d) Dactylic trimeter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic tetrameter.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 8 syllables, U S ×4.
◼️ 58. Rhyme scheme:
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul”
(a) AB (b) AA (c) BB (d) AC
✅ Answer: (a) AB.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 “feathers” (A) and “soul” (B) do not rhyme.
◼️ 59. “Batter my heart, three-personed God” — meter is:
(a) Trochaic trimeter (b) Iambic pentameter (c) Spondaic + Iambic (d) Anapestic dimeter
✅ Answer: (c) Spondaic + Iambic.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Opening has heavy stresses, then iambic.
◼️ 60. Rhyme scheme:
“Batter my heart, three-personed God
For you as yet but knock”
(a) AB (b) AA (c) BB (d) AC
✅ Answer: (a) AB.
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 “God” (A) and “knock” (B) do not rhyme.
◼️ 61. "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" — What meter is used here?
(a) Iambic Pentameter (b) Trochaic Tetrameter (c) Anapestic Trimeter (d) Dactylic Tetrameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Pentameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 The line has 5 iambs (U S), making it Iambic Pentameter.
◼️ 62. "The woods are lovely, dark and deep" — What is the meter?
(a) Iambic Tetrameter (b) Trochaic Tetrameter (c) Anapestic Dimeter (d) Spondaic Trimeter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Tetrameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Contains 4 iambs (U S), so it’s Iambic Tetrameter.
◼️ 63. "Once upon a midnight dreary" — What is the foot type?
(a) Trochee (b) Iamb (c) Anapest (d) Dactyl
✅ Answer: (d) Dactyl
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "ONCE u pon" (S U U) shows a Dactylic pattern.
◼️ 64. "Break, break, break" — Which foot is dominant here?
(a) Iamb (b) Trochee (c) Spondee (d) Anapest
✅ Answer: (c) Spondee
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "BREAK BREAK BREAK" is S S S, a heavy spondaic effect.
◼️ 65. "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" — Which foot is present?
(a) Iamb (b) Trochee (c) Dactyl (d) Anapest
✅ Answer: (b) Trochee
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "TWINkle TWINkle" (S U) → Trochee.
◼️ 66. "And miles to go before I sleep" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Pentameter (b) Iambic Tetrameter (c) Anapestic Trimeter (d) Trochaic Tetrameter
✅ Answer: (b) Iambic Tetrameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 4 iambs (U S) make it Iambic Tetrameter.
◼️ 67. "Because I could not stop for Death" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Tetrameter (b) Trochaic Trimeter (c) Anapestic Tetrameter (d) Spondaic Tetrameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Tetrameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "beCAUSE I COULD not STOP for DEATH" follows iambic pattern.
◼️ 68. "Half a league, half a league, half a league onward" — Which foot?
(a) Trochee (b) Dactyl (c) Anapest (d) Iamb
✅ Answer: (b) Dactyl
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "HALF a league" (S U U) is Dactylic.
◼️ 69. "O Captain! My Captain!" — What stress pattern?
(a) Trochaic (b) Iambic (c) Spondaic (d) Dactylic
✅ Answer: (a) Trochaic
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "O CAPtain" (S U) → Trochee.
◼️ 70. "’Twas the night before Christmas" — Which foot?
(a) Iamb (b) Trochee (c) Anapest (d) Dactyl
✅ Answer: (c) Anapest
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "’twas the NIGHT beFORE CHRISTmas" (U U S) → Anapestic.
◼️ 71. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Tetrameter (b) Trochaic Tetrameter (c) Anapestic Dimeter (d) Dactylic Trimeter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Tetrameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 4 iambs = Iambic Tetrameter.
◼️ 72. "Hickory, dickory, dock" — Which foot?
(a) Trochee (b) Dactyl (c) Iamb (d) Anapest
✅ Answer: (b) Dactyl
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "HICkory DICkory" (S U U) → Dactyl.
◼️ 73. "Shout, shout, let it all out" — Which stress type?
(a) Spondee (b) Trochee (c) Iamb (d) Anapest
✅ Answer: (a) Spondee
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "SHOUT SHOUT" is S S, a spondaic emphasis.
◼️ 74. "Under the spreading chestnut tree" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Tetrameter (b) Trochaic Tetrameter (c) Anapestic Tetrameter (d) Dactylic Tetrameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Tetrameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Follows U S pattern with 4 feet.
◼️ 75. "Tell me not in mournful numbers" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Tetrameter (b) Trochaic Tetrameter (c) Anapestic Trimeter (d) Dactylic Tetrameter
✅ Answer: (b) Trochaic Tetrameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "TELL me NOT in" (S U) → Trochaic.
◼️ 76. "Is this a dagger which I see before me" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Pentameter (b) Trochaic Tetrameter (c) Anapestic Tetrameter (d) Spondaic Pentameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Pentameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Has 5 iambs → Iambic Pentameter.
◼️ 77. "Tyger Tyger, burning bright" — Which foot?
(a) Trochee (b) Iamb (c) Anapest (d) Spondee
✅ Answer: (a) Trochee
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "TYger TYger" (S U) → Trochee.
◼️ 78. "In the room the women come and go" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Tetrameter (b) Trochaic Pentameter (c) Anapestic Trimeter (d) Iambic Pentameter
✅ Answer: (d) Iambic Pentameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 U S pattern with 5 feet.
◼️ 79. "And the sound of a voice that is still" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Tetrameter (b) Trochaic Tetrameter (c) Anapestic Dimeter (d) Spondaic Tetrameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Tetrameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 4 iambs = Iambic Tetrameter.
◼️ 80. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Pentameter (b) Trochaic Pentameter (c) Anapestic Pentameter (d) Dactylic Pentameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Pentameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 5 iambs → Iambic Pentameter.
◼️ 81. "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Pentameter (b) Trochaic Pentameter (c) Anapestic Pentameter (d) Dactylic Pentameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Pentameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 U S pattern repeated 5 times → Iambic Pentameter.
◼️ 82. "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness" — Which meter?
(a) Iambic Pentameter (b) Trochaic Pentameter (c) Anapestic Pentameter (d) Dactylic Pentameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Pentameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Keats uses 5 iambs per line.
◼️ 83. "Batter my heart, three-person’d God" — Which foot is dominant?
(a) Iamb (b) Trochee (c) Spondee (d) Dactyl
✅ Answer: (c) Spondee
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "BATTER my HEART" (S S) → Spondaic effect.
◼️ 84. "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Pentameter (b) Trochaic Pentameter (c) Anapestic Pentameter (d) Dactylic Pentameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Pentameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Regular 5 iambs (U S).
◼️ 85. "I heard a Fly buzz – when I died" — Which meter?
(a) Common Meter (b) Iambic Tetrameter (c) Trochaic Tetrameter (d) Anapestic Trimeter
✅ Answer: (a) Common Meter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Alternates iambic tetrameter and trimeter.
◼️ 86. "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Pentameter (b) Trochaic Pentameter (c) Anapestic Tetrameter (d) Dactylic Tetrameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Pentameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Mostly 5 iambs per line.
◼️ 87. "Fear no more the heat o’ the sun" — Which meter?
(a) Iambic Tetrameter (b) Trochaic Tetrameter (c) Anapestic Trimeter (d) Dactylic Tetrameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Tetrameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 4 iambs (U S) in the line.
◼️ 88. "Full fathom five thy father lies" — What foot?
(a) Trochee (b) Iamb (c) Anapest (d) Spondee
✅ Answer: (a) Trochee
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "FULL fathom" (S U) → Trochee.
◼️ 89. "Water, water, every where" — Which meter?
(a) Iambic Tetrameter (b) Trochaic Tetrameter (c) Anapestic Dimeter (d) Dactylic Tetrameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Tetrameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 4 iambs (U S) per line.
◼️ 90. "Sing to me of the man, Muse" — Which meter?
(a) Dactylic Hexameter (b) Iambic Pentameter (c) Trochaic Pentameter (d) Anapestic Pentameter
✅ Answer: (a) Dactylic Hexameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Epic verse form, 6 dactyls.
◼️ 91. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" — Which foot?
(a) Iamb (b) Trochee (c) Anapest (d) Spondee
✅ Answer: (d) Spondee
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Heavy stress pairing → Spondaic.
◼️ 92. "Hark! hark! the lark at heaven’s gate sings" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Pentameter (b) Trochaic Tetrameter (c) Anapestic Pentameter (d) Dactylic Pentameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Pentameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Regular 5 iambs.
◼️ 93. "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan" — Which foot?
(a) Trochee (b) Iamb (c) Anapest (d) Dactyl
✅ Answer: (a) Trochee
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "IN Xana" (S U) → Trochee.
◼️ 94. "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Pentameter (b) Trochaic Pentameter (c) Anapestic Pentameter (d) Dactylic Pentameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Pentameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 5 iambs.
◼️ 95. "Had we but world enough, and time" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Tetrameter (b) Trochaic Tetrameter (c) Anapestic Tetrameter (d) Dactylic Tetrameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Tetrameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 4 iambs in the line.
◼️ 96. "Out, out, brief candle!" — Which foot?
(a) Trochee (b) Iamb (c) Spondee (d) Dactyl
✅ Answer: (a) Trochee
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "OUT out" (S U) → Trochee.
◼️ 97. "When I have fears that I may cease to be" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Pentameter (b) Trochaic Pentameter (c) Anapestic Pentameter (d) Dactylic Pentameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Pentameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 5 iambs.
◼️ 98. "Cannon to right of them" — What meter?
(a) Dactylic Dimeter (b) Trochaic Tetrameter (c) Iambic Tetrameter (d) Anapestic Dimeter
✅ Answer: (a) Dactylic Dimeter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 "CANnon to" (S U U) → Dactyl.
◼️ 99. "So long lives this, and this gives life to thee" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Pentameter (b) Trochaic Pentameter (c) Anapestic Pentameter (d) Dactylic Pentameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Pentameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Shakespeare’s sonnet form = Iambic Pentameter.
◼️ 100. "O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being" — What meter?
(a) Iambic Pentameter (b) Trochaic Pentameter (c) Anapestic Pentameter (d) Dactylic Pentameter
✅ Answer: (a) Iambic Pentameter
🔷 📘 Explanation: 👉 Regular iambic pentameter with Romantic diction.
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