Read the poem excerpt. A backyard reality is rearranged. Hopscotch lines cower and hide, The toys in the yard . . . lost until spring. Which statement best describes the meter?

The lines have uneven lengths and no steady pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, so the meter is free rather than fixed. That irregular rhythm makes the poem feel unpredictable, which matches “A backyard reality is rearranged.” The meter does not establish a regular end-rhyme pattern or suggest a two-way conversation.

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