Question

Select the correct answer.
Which pattern of meter is used in this excerpt from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
May'st hear the merry din.
He holds him with his skinny hand,
There was a ship.' quoth he.
"Hold offl unhand me, grey-beard loon!'
Eftsoons his hand dropthe.
A.
alternating pentameter and trimeter
• B.
alternating pentameter and tetrameter
C.
alternating trimeter and dimeter
D.
alternating monometer and dimeter
E
alternating tetrameter and trimeter

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Answer 1

S.T.Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner talks about a man who starts describing about his experience on a voyage. This poem talks about remorse, grief and the rise of hope after a heart-wrenching experience.

Explanation:

In the poem there is iambic meter throughout. Coleridge has tried to put all his words into a thought-provoking poem. This poem is divided into seven parts. This poem is long and the meter used must be reader gripping. This was beautifully taken care of, by Coleridge.

This excerpt is from the first part of the poem, the very  beginning lines. To keep up the pace in a similar way throughout the poem, he starts it with a trimeter and dimeter.

Alternating trimeter keeps recurring in every part of poem. In the same way, dimeter is used in every line in this poem.

Iambic - Iamb is a metrical foot which consists of two syllables. The first of which is unstressed and second is stressed.

Trimeter - it contains three iambic feet.

Dimeter - it contacs only two feet.