Select the correct answer.
Which pattern of meter is used in this excerpt from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide,
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
May'st hear the merry din.'
He holds him with his skinny hand,
'There was a ship,' quoth he.
'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"
Eftsoons his hand dropt he.
O A.
alternating pentameter and trimeter
B.
alternating pentameter and tetrameter
C.
alternating trimeter and dimeter
O D.
alternating monometer and dimeter
O E.
alternating tetrameter and trimeter