Which answer best describes the meter in this excerpt?
A. Alternating dactylic tetrameter and dactylic trimeter
B. Alternating dactylic trimeter and dactylic tetrameter
C. Alternating iambic tetrameter and dactylic trimeter
D. Alternating iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter
E. Alternating iambic trimeter and iambic tetrameter
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!
