Read these lines from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells
Which best explains the metrical pattern of these lines?
A. They are an unusual example of trochaic pentameter in a mostly
unmetered poem.
B. They strongly resemble iambic pentameter, though other lines in
the poem do not
C. They represent the strict iambic pentameter that persists
throughout the poem.
D. They are written in trochaic pentameter, though the rest of the
poem is iambic.