Question

Read this excerpt from The Iliad.

The trembling priest along the shore return'd,
And in the anguish of a father mourn'd
Disconsolate, not daring to complain,
Silent he wander'd by the sounding main;
Till, safe at distance, to his god he prays,
the god who darts around the world his rays.

How many feet are there in total?

@brendonpryor

I think it is 10?

Answer 1

i want to say
six
but i am not certain but i heavily feel like it is six
Foot

Definition:

No toes, no shoes, no soles. In literary circles, this term refers to the most basic unit of a poem's meter.

A foot is a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. There are all kinds of feet in poetry, and they all sound different, so we'll give you a handy list. If you want to be the nerdiest nerd in the nerd herd, you should memorize it:

Iamb: daDUMTrochee: DUMdaSpondee: DUMDUMAnapest: dadaDUMDactyl: DUMdadaAmphibrach: daDUMdaPyrrhic: dadaA combination of feet makes up a line of meter. So, for example, the most common meter in English poetry is iambic pentameter, which contains five (that's where that "pent-" comes from) iambs, all in a row.Finding your feet can be as tricky as learning the Viennese waltz, but that's the main task of scansion, a fancy term for analyzing a poem's meter. Just remember the list above, and read aloud, read read aloud.

Answer 2

It is 6.

Because the poem Iliad that is wrtitten by Homer is made out if six feet.

Here's proof from my lesson ;)

The Iliad has a rhythm created by a rhyme scheme. It is made up of feet. Homer wrote the original text in dactylic hexameter (12 syllables/6 feet)

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