Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something that the characters don’t.
Since the only way to find out if a line is written in a trimeter, or pentameter, etc. is to count the number of syllables, and then divide that number by two to get the meter, that is exactly what we are going to do here.
This line has 8 syllables: (a tree whose hung- ry mouth is prest), we should divide it by 2, which equals 4.
So, the correct answer is that this line is an example of iambic tetrameter. Tetra means 4.
Answer: lt describes God's interaction with humankind.
Explanation:
Donne's Meditation 17 explains death as one of God´s translators, meaning that is his way to guide us through our journey. In the same way, age, sickness, war, and justice are also God´s translator. The idea behind this meditation is that all of humanity is connected because each of us is the author of our own volume, and death means that a chapter is being translated by God, not just torn apart. In the end, God will gather every book to lie open to one another, signaling the union of all humankind.
