Question

choose the poem that uses trochaic meter. bounding billow, cease thy motion, bear me not so swiftly over! cease thy roaring, foamy ocean! i will tempt thy rage no more. on the rim of a skyscrapers forehead i looked down and saw: hats: fifty thousand hats: swarming with a noise of bees and sheep, cattle and waterfalls, stopping with a silence of sea grass, a silence of prairie corn. adapted from mary robinson, written between dover and calais, in july 1792 and from carl sandburg, hats

Explanation:

A trochaic meter has a pattern of stressed - unstressed syllables. In the first poem "Bounding billow, cease thy motion...", each foot starts with a stressed syllable (e.g., "Bound - ing", "cease - thy"). The second poem does not follow this pattern consistently.

Answer:

Bounding billow, cease thy motion,
Bear me not so swiftly over!
Cease thy roaring, foamy ocean!
I will tempt thy rage no more.