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What kind of metrical foot accounts for the majority of Wendy Cope’s “Emily Dickinson”?

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The meter (or foot) that accounts for the most of "Emily Dickinson," by Wendy Cope is dactylic meter characterized by an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables ( marked: / ᵕ ᵕ ). She used verse form called double dactyl as there are two stanzas (each have three lines) written with dactylic dimeter (line of verse consisted of two dactylic metrical feet).

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