10 PTS AND BRAINLIEST 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.

it is used to emphasize the word or sentence.

main idea: it is important to prepare today for the needs of tomorrow.

the grasshopper was dying due to hunger, and this was because he didn't prepare for the winter.

the ants told the grasshopper, "if you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter."

the ants were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected in the summertime.