The poet's late work observes a strict prosody, but the constraint never feels imposed from outside. The meter seems, rather, to grow naturally out of the way she habitually thinks — as if her thought had always been waiting to find its measure.
As used in the text, what does the word "measure" most nearly mean?
- A
moderate amount
- Bcheck_circle
metrical pattern
- C
unit of length
- D
legislative bill
Explanation
The prosody/meter is what her thought finds; "measure" means metrical pattern (a poetic sense), not the length, amount, or legislation senses.