Question

Which sentence describes a poem's meter?

Answer 1

In poetry, the metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
So the answer would be D.

Answer 2

Meter refers to the unit in poetry for rhythm and the beats pattern. Also known as foot, it has usually two or three syllables in each foot.

A word meter is derived from the Greek word 'measure'

With the lines of verse or poem, the meter also refers to the unstressed and a stressed syllabic pattern. Unstressed syllables are shorter and the stressed tend to be longer.

It has various types such as iambic meter, trochaic meter, spondaic meter.

Therefore, sentence which describes a poem's meter is D. Every three syllables in each line is accented