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Which two of these characteristics are common to epics and ballads?
Both originated from the oral poetic tradition.
Both revolve around the exploits of a central hero.
Both use iambic pentameter and a simple rhyme scheme.
Both contain the elements of a narrative.
Both are exclusively focused on mythological stories.

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Both originated from the oral poetic tradition and Both contain the elements of a narrative.

What is the poetic form of this excerpt from Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"?

Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top

In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.

He moves in darkness as it seems to me,

Not of woods only and the shade of trees.

He will not go behind his father's saying,

And he likes having thought of it so well

A.

free verse

B.

blank verse

C.

ballad

D.

sonnet

E.

elegy

C is the best choice