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Properly mark the metrical feet (stressed and unstressed syllables) in the following line of poetry.

Go and catch a falling star

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Go and catch a falling star

The words or syllables in bold are stressed, and the other ones are unstressed.

It is a trochaic tetrameter. A trochaic foot consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one, this pattern is repeated four times in tetrameters.

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