Which sentence describes a poem's meter?
a. the speaker's attitude is clearly sarcastic.
b. the poem follows an abcd abcd rhyme scheme.
c. there are 14 syllables in each line.
d. the thunderstorm represents conflict?

The sentence that describes a poem's meter is c. there are 14 syllables in each line. The meter in a poem describes the number of feet in a line and its rhythmic structure. You can identify the type of meter in a poem by identifying the number and type of syllables in a line. Thus, you can determine the type of poem, such as ballad, sonnet or Sapphic poem.

Apex- there are 14 syllables in each line

folding him safely under her wing

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.