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Identify the METER of the following line, and explain your answer. "Happy thoughts come to those with baked goods and fat cats"

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The meter of this line is the so-called Alexandrine or iambic hexameter. It is actually a 12-syllable line, containing 6 mostly iambic feet (iamb is a foot that contains one short and one long, emphasized syllable). Alexandrine contains two semi-lines divided by caesura (a pause or a break).

Ha/ppy / thoughts / come / to / those || with / baked / goods / and / fat / cats
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