"happy ye leaves! when as those lilly hands,
which hold my life in their dead doing might,
shall handle you, and hold in love's soft bands,
like captives trembling at the victor's sight."

from "happy ye leaves, whenas those lily hands,"
by edmund spenser

read this stanza from edmund spenser's poem "happy ye leaves, whenas those lily hands," and identify the meter of the poem.

a.
iambic pentameter

b.
trochaic trimeter

c.
spondaic heptameter

d.
pyrrhic tetrameter