Question

Read the second stanza of Tennyson's poem "The Eagle."The meter of line 1 is

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

iambic hexameter

dactylic hexameter

iambic tetrameter

dactylic tetrameter

Answer 1

the answer should be iambic but im not sure about the last part but you can narrow your options

Answer 2

Picking from iambic hexameter

dactylic hexameter

iambic tetrameter

dactylic tetrameter

The answer to this problem is iambic hexameter.