Question

What is the effect of the changing rhythm in the excerpt?

Answer 1

Colin Clout
by John Skelton (excerpt)

What can it avail
To drive forth a snail,
Or to make a sail
Of an herring’s tail;
To rhyme or to rail,
To write or to indict,
Either for delight
Or else for despight;
Or books to compile
Of divers manner of style,
Vice to revile
And sin to exile;
To teach or to preach,
As reason will reach?

Answer 2

It emphasizes the changing tone throughout the poem.

It focuses on the different subjects of the poem.

It suits the rhythm to the different rhymes in the poem.

It emphasizes the sense of whimsically changing the subject.

Answer 3

B?

Answer 4

@Conqueror

Answer 5

No not B...

Answer 6

Try again :)

Answer 7

D?

Answer 8

Whimsical can also mean tending toward odd or unpredictable behavior. Both whimsical and whim are derived from an earlier English word whim-wham, which is of unknown origin. Whim-wham had about the same meaning as whim, but could also refer to an odd object or piece of clothing.
SO I think he stays pretty strait forward with his writing so D possibly but please pick a "back-up" answer xD