Question 7 • CMS 2026-2027 English III CREDIT RECOVERY
Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall." We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: "Stay where you are until our backs are turned!" We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. What feature of this excerpt makes it blank verse?
Answer
A
It does not use everyday language.
B
It has a rhyming pattern.
C
It is about nature.
D
It has iambic pentameter.
Explanation
Blank verse is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter has five rhythmic units per line, generally alternating an unstressed syllable with a stressed one. This excerpt uses that meter without a regular rhyme scheme, so the feature that makes it blank verse is its iambic pentameter.
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