Read this poem. Feet pound pavement as miles pass, Steady as tides, they approach their shore, Training is tested, strength is stretched— Buoyed by the pack, one mile more. Sweat streaks, muscles tense, eager for the end, Final flags beckon, the crowd grows loud. Tested vessels reach their harbor— Runners hearts beat proud. Which statements describe the poem? Choose three correct answers.

The poem has eight lines arranged in two groups of four, so each stanza is a quatrain and the poem contains two stanzas. In each stanza, the second and fourth lines rhyme: “shore” rhymes with “more,” and “loud” rhymes with “proud,” while the first and third lines do not rhyme. That gives each stanza an ABCB rhyme scheme. The line lengths and rhythm vary, so the meter is not fixed and every line is not the same length.

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