Read the poem excerpt.A backyard reality is rearranged.Hopscotch lines cower and hide,The toys in the yard . . . lost until spring.

The lines do not follow a steady pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, so the meter is free. That irregular rhythm makes the poem feel unpredictable, which matches choice B. The excerpt also does not show a consistent end-rhyme pattern that a fixed meter might emphasize.

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