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Read the excerpt below and answer the question. Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; ("Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart"; lines 1-2) The meter of these two lines is:

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    In the poem "Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart", the author uses an iambic pentameter meter which can be popularly seen in Shakespeare's sonnets. In this kind of meter, each line has ten syllables. These syllables are divided into five pairs where one unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed one.
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