Noticing the rhyme, steady meter, and quatrain stanza structure of Yeats's "The Lake of Innisfree" is
A) interpretive criticism
B) historical criticism
C) descriptive criticism
D) evaluative criticism

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Noticing the rhyme, steady meter, and quatrain stanza structure of a poem is an example of descriptive criticism, which focuses on describing the form, style, and structure of a work without interpreting its meaning or judging its value.

Noticing the Rhyme, Steady Meter, and Quatrain Stanza Structure of Yeats's