Which poet, who seems be using iambic pentameter, bends the meter most?

Question

A. Emily Dickinson
B. John Donne
C. Gerard Manley Hopkins
D. Emma Lazarus

Answer 1

I think the answer is C. Gerard Hopkins. It would help if I knew which poems the question was referring to, because they all wrote a lot of stuff. Here is why I think it is him, the questions says "bends the meter most" and he kind of made up his own. Read below:

Much of Hopkins' historical importance has to do with the changes he brought to the form of poetry, which ran contrary to conventional ideas of meter. Prior to Hopkins, most Middle English and Modern English poetry was based on a rhythmic structure inherited from the Norman side of English's literary heritage. This structure is based on repeating groups of two or three syllables, with the stressed syllable falling in the same place on each repetition. Hopkins called this structure running rhythm, and though he wrote some of his early verse in running rhythm. Hopkins called his own rhythmic structure sprung rhythm. Sprung rhythm is structured around feet with a variable number of syllables, generally between one and four syllables per foot, with the stress always falling on the first syllable in a foot. Hopkins saw sprung rhythm as a way to escape the constraints of running rhythm, which he said inevitably, pushed poetry written in it to become "same and tame." In this way, Hopkins can be seen as anticipating much of free verse.

Answer 2

lmfao he said dong

Answer 3

john dong