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Determine the meter of the following line.

I almost fell asleep.
trochaic
iambic
anapestic
dactylic

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Answer:

it is iambic! :)

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The meter of this line is iambic.
Iamb consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. So here, I is unstressed, al- is stressed, most is unstressed, fell is stressed, a- is unstressed, and sleep is stressed.
Trochee is quite the opposite, so that is incorrect, and anapest and dactyl refer to three syllables.
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