Excerpt from sonnet 116
william shakespeare
let me not to the marriage of true minds
admit impediments, love is not love
which alters when it alteration finds
or bends with the remover to remove
0. no, it is an ever-fixed mark, 5
that looks on tempests and is never shaken,
it is the star to every wand'ring bark,
whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken
love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
within his bending sickle's compass come: 10
love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
but bears it out even to the edge of doom
it this be error and upon me proved,
i never writ, nor no man ever loved.
- which best explains why this poem's rhythmical pattern is identified as iambic pentameter?
a) each line is a line of verse with ten metrical feet, each consisting of one short or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable
b) each line is a line of verse with ten metrical feet, each consisting of one long (or stressed) syllable followed by one short (or unstressed) syllable
c) each line is a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable
d) each line is a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one long (or stressed) syllable followed by one short (or unstressed) syllable

C.  

Explanation:

An iambic pentameter is a combination of two words, 'iamb' which in poetry refers to the foot or the beat of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Or, in simple words, an iamb is a beat in a line of poetry that consists of an unstressed or short syllable followed by a stressed or long syllable. Pentameter, on the other hand, refers to five metrical feet in a line of poetry.

So, an iambic pentameter refers to a line of poetry that consists of five metrical feet with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

So, according to the definition provided the correct answer is option C.

yes yes it does !

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!