Question

choose the poem that uses trochaic meter. 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. bounding billow, cease thy motion, bear me not so swiftly over! cease thy roaring, foamy ocean! i will tempt thy rage no more. from carl sandburg, \hats\ and adapted from mary robinson, \written between dover and calais, in 1792\

Explanation:

A trochaic meter consists of trochees - stressed - unstressed syllable pairs. In "Bounding billow, cease thy motion, Bear me not so swiftly over! Cease thy roaring, foamy ocean! I will tempt thy rage no more.", each foot starts with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one. For example, "Bound - ing", "cease - thy", etc.

Answer:

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