Analyzing Tone and Identifying Central Ideas: Chief Joseph's speech "An Indian's View of Indian Affairs"

Question 1 • [ELA11] ELA 11, Sem 1 (26-27)

Which of these stanzas is in blank verse?

Answer

“Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,The muttering retreats”

“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,And spills the upper boulders in the sun;And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.”

Explanation

Blank verse is unrhymed poetry written mainly in iambic pentameter, a pattern of five beats per line. The lines in choice B follow that rhythm and do not rhyme with one another. Choice A has irregular line lengths and rhythm, so it is free verse rather than blank verse.

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