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Read the second stanza of Tennyson's poem "The Eagle."The meter of line 1 is

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

iambic hexameter

dactylic hexameter

iambic tetrameter

dactylic tetrameter

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the answer should be iambic but im not sure about the last part but you can narrow your options
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Picking from iambic hexameter

dactylic hexameter

iambic tetrameter

dactylic tetrameter

The answer to this problem is iambic hexameter.

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