What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do? I saw it go
Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over—there it is in the water!
No use to say ‘O there are other balls’

Source: Berryman, John. “The Ball Poem.” Collected Poems: 1937 – 1971. Ed. Charles Thornbury. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. Google Books. Web. 06 June 2011.

What is the structure of this poem?

free verse
blank verse
sonnet
ballad

Question

What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do? I saw it go
Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over—there it is in the water!
No use to say ‘O there are other balls’

Source: Berryman, John. “The Ball Poem.” Collected Poems: 1937 – 1971. Ed. Charles Thornbury. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. Google Books. Web. 06 June 2011.

 

What is the structure of this poem?

free verse
blank verse
sonnet
ballad

bear17bear · Answer

Blank Verse- A blank verse is unrhymed poetry that is written in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter is a meter in poetry that consists of five feet or units. Each foot contains 2 syllables. Majority of the pairs begin with an unstressed syllable which is then followed by a stressed syllable. An unstressed syllable means that it is not bearing an accent for example short vowels. Stressed Syllable is a syllable having strong relative emphasis in a metrical pattern.