Each of these quotations is from a famous poem by William Wordsworth. Which of the quotations best illustrates blank verse?Group of answer choicesMy heart leaps up when I behold / A rainbow in the sky. --"My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold"And then my heart with pleasure fills / And dances with the daffodils. --"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"'Twas summer and the sun was mounted high. / Along the south the uplands feebly glared --"The Ruined Cottage"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; / Little we see in Nature that is ours; --"The World Is Too Much with Us" PreviousNext
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Each of these quotations is from a famous poem by William Wordsworth. Which of the quotations best illustrates blank verse?Group of answer choicesMy heart leaps up when I behold / A rainbow in the sky. --"My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold"And then my heart with pleasure fills / And dances with the daffodils. --"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"'Twas summer and the sun was mounted high. / Along the south the uplands feebly glared --"The Ruined Cottage"Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; / Little we see in Nature that is ours; --"The World Is Too Much with Us" PreviousNext
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The quotation that best illustrates blank verse is "'Twas summer and the sun was mounted high. / Along the south the uplands feebly glared --"The Ruined Cottage". Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter. In this quotation, there is no rhyme and the meter is iambic pentameter.
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