What is the meter of the following line from “A Sybil” by Rilke?

“Her age became too much to say”

Im confused and cant find an answer.

Iambic pentameter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic pentameter

Trochaic tetrameter

Her AGE beCAME too MUCH to SAY

This line has 8 syllables with every other one accented.

Which of the patterns described in this site apply to your example?

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/meter.html

To determine the meter of a line, you need to analyze the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. In this case, the line from "A Sybil" by Rilke is: "Her age became too much to say."

To analyze the meter, we first need to understand the different types of feet commonly used in meter analysis:

1. Iamb: an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, as in "be-long" or "a-way."
2. Trochee: a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable, as in "tyrant" or "I-gnor."
3. Pentameter: a line of verse consisting of five feet.

Now, let's look at the line in question: "Her age became too much to say."

If we mark the stressed syllables with a '/' and the unstressed syllables with a 'u', we get: "/ u / u / u u / u"

Based on this scansion, we can see that the line consists of four feet, each containing one stressed and one unstressed syllable. Therefore, the meter of this line is trochaic tetrameter, which means it has four feet, each consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.

So, the answer is: Trochaic tetrameter.