Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."We keep the wall between us as we go.To each the boulders that have fallen to each.And some are loaves and some so nearly ballsWe have to use a spell to make them balance:"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"We wear our fingers rough with handling them.Oh, just another kind of out-door game,One on a side. It comes to little more:There where it is we do not need the wall:He is all pine and I am apple orchard.What feature of this excerpt makes it blank verse?
Answer
A
It has a rhyming pattern.
B
It has iambic pentameter.
C
It does not use everyday language.
D
It is about nature.
Explanation
Blank verse is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter generally has five pairs of syllables, each moving from an unstressed syllable to a stressed one. This excerpt follows that metrical pattern without a regular end-rhyme scheme, so the feature that makes it blank verse is its iambic pentameter—not its subject or its use of everyday language.
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