Read the passage.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.


Identify the meter. Then identify the effect of that meter.


A: unstressed STRESSED, unstressed STRESSED, unstressed STRESSED, unstressed STRESSED. It conveys the speaker's militant determination.


B: STRESSED unstressed, STRESSED unstressed, STRESSED unstressed, STRESSED unstressed. It emphasizes the desperate unhappiness of the speaker's life.


C: unstressed STRESSED, unstressed STRESSED, unstressed STRESSED, unstressed STRESSED. It gives the poem a reflective mood.


D: STRESSED unstressed, STRESSED unstressed, STRESSED unstressed, STRESSED unstressed. It allows you to visualize the speaker.