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.)

The correct answer is C: Iambic Pentameter

Iambic Pentameter is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama. "Pentameter" indicates a line of five "feet".

The foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. This pattern repeats five times in each line, as we can see below:

U: unstressed

S: stressed

U---SU---SUSUSUS

I'm go | ing out | to clean | the pas | ture spring;  

U---S---U---SUSUSU---S

I'll on | ly stop | to rake | the leaves | away  

USU---SUS---USU---S

(And wait | to watch | the wa | ter clear, | I may):  

USU---SUSS---S--S

I sha'n't | be gone | long.—You | come too.  

U---SUS---USUS---U---S

I'm go | ing out | to fetch | the lit | tle calf  

USUSUSUSU---S

That's stan | ding by | the mo | ther. It's | so young,  

U--SUSUSU--SUS

It tot | ters when | she licks | it with | her tongue.  

USU---SUSS---S--S

I sha'n't | be gone | long.—You | come too.