choose the poem that uses trochaic meter.\nfirst come i; my name is jowett.\ntheres no knowledge but i know…

choose the poem that uses trochaic meter.\nfirst come i; my name is jowett.\ntheres no knowledge but i know it.\ni am master of this college:\nwhat i dont know isnt knowledge.\ncalm - eyed and inaccessible\nthe stars peer through the blue fissures of the sky,\nunperturbed among the panic of scurrying beams;\ntwinkling with a cold, acrid merriment.\nfrom henry charles beeching, \the masque of balliol\ and from alter brody, \searchlights\

choose the poem that uses trochaic meter.\nfirst come i; my name is jowett.\ntheres no knowledge but i know it.\ni am master of this college:\nwhat i dont know isnt knowledge.\ncalm - eyed and inaccessible\nthe stars peer through the blue fissures of the sky,\nunperturbed among the panic of scurrying beams;\ntwinkling with a cold, acrid merriment.\nfrom henry charles beeching, \the masque of balliol\ and from alter brody, \searchlights\

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Brief Explanations:

Trochaic meter consists of trochees. A trochee is a metrical foot with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. In the first poem, we can scan the syllables:

  • "First come I; my name is Jowett." - "First" (stressed) "come" (unstressed), "I" (stressed) (short line), "my" (stressed) "name" (unstressed), "is" (stressed) (short), "Jo" (stressed) "wett" (unstressed).
  • "There's no knowledge but I know it." - "There's" (stressed) "no" (unstressed), "know" (stressed) "ledge" (unstressed), "but" (stressed) (short), "I" (stressed) (short), "know" (stressed) "it" (unstressed).
  • "I am master of this college:" - "I" (stressed) (short), "am" (stressed) (short), "mas" (stressed) "ter" (unstressed), "of" (stressed) (short), "this" (stressed) (short), "col" (stressed) "lege" (unstressed).
  • "What I don't know isn't knowledge." - "What" (stressed) (short), "I" (stressed) (short), "don't" (stressed) (short), "know" (stressed) (short), "isn't" (stressed) (short), "know" (stressed) "ledge" (unstressed).

In the second poem, if we scan:

  • "Calm - eyed and inaccessible" - "Calm" (stressed) "eyed" (unstressed), "and" (stressed) (short), "in" (stressed) "ac" (unstressed) "ces" (stressed) "si" (unstressed) "ble" (stressed) (short). The meter is more irregular compared to the first poem in terms of trochaic pattern consistency.

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The first poem (First come I; my name is Jowett...).