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Read the poem below and answer the question.

The Eagle

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

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

What kind of metrical feet does the poem use?
iambic
trochaic
dactylic
anapestic

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Answer:

iambic

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User Tomascapek
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i am pretty sure that the answer is iambic
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