Question 1 • GA-Literature and Composition I
“My skateboard is the thing that I most prize” has 10 syllables, which can be read as five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables: my SKATE | board IS | the THING | that I | most PRIZE. That five-beat pattern is iambic pentameter. The other lines do not fit the same five iambic beats as naturally.
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