Ahorse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! william shakespeare, king richard iii, act v, scene iv why is this verse an example of iambic pentameter? a. it contains five metrical feet, each following a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. b. the verse forms a pattern of an unstressed syllable immediately followed by a stressed syllable. c. it is a line from shakespeare, and his plays contain verse written only in iambic pentameter. d. the verse is 10 syllables long with an unstressed syllable at the beginning and end.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky