In Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind", consider t...

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In Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind", consider the lines:

"Thou on whose stream, 'mid the steep sky's commotion,

Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed

Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean"

Which of the following best describes the poetic structure?

A

The first line has a caesura, and the second and third lines are end - stopped.

B

All three lines show enjambment, and there is no caesura.

C

The first line is enjambed, and the second and third lines form a rhyming couplet with end - stopped lines.

D

The first line contains a caesura, and the second and third lines are enjambed.

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