Question

read the excerpt from \song\ by muriel rukeyser. make and be eaten, the poet says, lie in the arms of nightlong fire, to celebrate the waking, wake. burn in the daylong light; and praise even the mother unappeased, even the fathers of desire this excerpt is an example of heroic couplet blank verse common meter free verse.

Explanation:

Heroic couplets are rhyming iambic pentameter pairs. This excerpt has no rhyme - scheme like heroic couplets. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter, and this doesn't follow iambic pentameter. Common meter is a pattern of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, which is not present here. Free verse has no regular meter or rhyme scheme, which this excerpt fits as it has no set rhythm or rhyme.

Answer:

D. free verse