Read the poem excerpt.

as every eye awaits her hand
to cue the members of the band.

which statement best describes the meter?

the meter is free, imitating the flow of conversational speech.
the meter is free, making the poem unpredictable.
the meter is fixed, and every syllable is stressed.
the meter is fixed, drawing attention to the end rhyme.

The meter is fixed, drawing attention to the end rhyme.

Explanation:

The rhyme of Hand-Band, and the meter of the verses where you can read it so you end on the perfect rhyme of hand and band, its what brings attention to the ending of the sentence, this way the author makes it easier for the reader to undersand the message that he wants to send.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.