Question

Please select the best answer and click "submit." Read the first stanza of Ezra Pound's poem "The Garden" below: Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emotional anemia. Which of these best describes the structure Pound uses here? A. Iambic meter B. Blank verse C. Free verse D. Sonnet

Answer 1

The answer is C. Free verse

Answer 2

Free verse

Iambic meter is when the syllables have a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. There is not pattern here. Blank verse has no rhyme but it does have meter. This stanza of Pound's poem has no meter. Free Verse is poetry with no rhyme or meter. This is correct because the stanza does not rhyme or have meter. A sonnet is a type of poem with a very specific rhyming and metric pattern.