Which of the following lines of poetry is written in iambic pentameter ?
Correct answer: A. "To be or not to be, that is the question."
- A. "To be or not to be, that is the question."
- B. "And the world didn't even think of stopping for me."
- C. "I played about the front gate, pulling flowers."
- D. "I wandered lonely as a cloud."
Explanation
The line begins with the regular iambic pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables and contains five beats: “To BE / or NOT / to BE / that IS / the QUES-tion.” The other lines do not maintain five iambic feet as consistently.
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