Question

What is the meter pattern in these lines from "On Imagination" by Phillis Wheatley?

Answer 1

In Phillis Wheatley's poem “Imagination” In his poem, he discusses throughout the Greek mythology about the various gods and seasons. The meter pattern in these lines is iambic pentameter.

Iambic pentameter is a type of meter pattern which contains the number of syllables and emphasis on the same, in a line of verse. It consists of the short syllable followed by the long or stressed syllable. Great examples of the iambic pentameter are the works of Shakespeare.

Answer 2

The correct answer among the choices provided is the second option. Iambic pentameter was the meter pattern used in "On Imagination". Aside from iambic pentameter, Phyllis Wheatley also uses couplet and heroic form in her poems. Wheatley was an eighteenth-century black slave.