Question

Read the excerpt from “The Pasture” by Robert Frost. What is the meter?

I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;
I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away,

A.
trochaic trimeter (The foot has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. This pattern repeats three times in each line.)
B.
trochaic hexameter (The foot has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. This pattern repeats six times in each line.)
C.
iambic pentameter (The foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. This pattern repeats five times in each line.)
D.
iambic tetrameter (The foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. This pattern repeats four times in each line.)

Answer 1

What do you think the answer is?

Answer 2

No, first what are you're Ideas and what do you think can be eliminated?

Answer 3

Also, In the future, put it in the correct subject. This is in the subject Mathematics when it is supposed to be in the subject English.

Answer 4

Posting the excerpt would help me explain what the answer is also,

Answer 5

Identify the stressed/unstressed syllable pattern first

starting w/ the first line

I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;

---> "I'm" is unstressed
"going" ---> two syllables, the first one stressed and the second one unstressed
---> "out" ---> stressed
---> " to" ---> the "to" in infinitives is usually unstressed

if you repeat this pattern, you'll find an unstressed-stressed pattern which narrows us down to choices C+D

to find the # of feet per line, simply divide the total # of syllables / 2 syllables per foot