Which of the following describes the structure of this excerpt best? a. free verse b. sonnet c. ballad d. blank verse

The correct answer is letter D. blank verse.

Explanation:

The excerpt shown in the picture belongs to the poem Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The option that best describes the structure is letter D. blank verse.

Free verse happens when a poem does not follow any rules for meter or rhyme schemes. This poem, however, does follow a rule for meter: iambic pentameter - a five-time repetition of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.

A sonnet follows pretty strict rules. It has 14 lines written with iambic pentameter, and it has a specific rhyme scheme. As we can see in the excerpt, the lines in this poem do not rhyme.

A ballad is usually divided into quatrains. It presents an abab rhyme scheme. Thus, this poem is not a ballad.

The only option left - and the correct one - is blank verse. Blank verse happens when the lines do not rhyme, but they do present a regular metrical - usually, iambic pentameter. That is precisely what happens in this poem.

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

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