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Here’s your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Marble Men.

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Explains how they got such chiseled abs.

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Which of the following is NOT true of the structure of this poem?

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And here are the potential answers…

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Looks like it’s time to test our knowledge of poetic terminology and techniques.

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But we’re not afraid. We can Stanza and Deliver.

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One of the major clues in this question is that it asks us about the structure of the poem.

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Not the structure of a piece of the poem, or a technique used on this or that line…

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but of the whole shebang.

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So… the answer choice we’re looking for is probably going to be something pretty broad

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and all-encompassing. For example, A and C both mention something

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that the poem “contains.”

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Well… aside from the fact that there is an enjambment between lines 6 and 7… or

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a continuation of a clause from one line to the next without punctuated pause…

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…and a caesura in line 12… or a break between words within a metrical foot…

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…we can be pretty sure that neither of these are the correct answer even if we didn’t

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know what they mean.

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The phrasing of the question clues us in to the fact that we’re looking for something bigger…

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B fits the description… but it happens to be true.

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A stanza is just a paragraph in a poem, and there are indeed 5 of them. So scratch this one.

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D is also true, as there are 10 syllables in every line, and it follows

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the rhythm scheme associated with iambic pentameter.

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The only one that’s bogus is option E – It follows an ABBA rhyme scheme.

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A quick glance at the end of the first few lines shows us that this ain’t the case…

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so E is our answer.

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Now we’ll play you out with a little ABBA rhyme scheme that’s one of our personal favorites…

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