Excerpt from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Use the poem to answer the question. Which answer best describes the meter in this excerpt? (1 point)
alternating dactylic tetrameter and dactylic trimeter
alternating dactylic trimeter and dactylic tetrameter
alternating iambic tetrameter and dactylic trimeter
alternating iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter
alternating iambic trimeter and iambic tetrameter