Question

Tintern Abbey is composed in

• A. free verse
• B. iambic pentameter
• C. heroic couplets
• D. trochaic tetrameter

Answer 1

Answer:

B. iambic pentameter

William Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” is written in blank verse, which means:

• Unrhymed lines

• In iambic pentameter

What is iambic pentameter?

• Iambic: A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (da-DUM).

• Pentameter: Five iambic feet per line (10 syllables total per line).

Example from Tintern Abbey:

Five years have past; five summers, with the length

• This line follows the iambic pentameter pattern closely.

So, iambic pentameter is the correct metrical structure.

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