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Read the following line of poetry and pick out the iambic metrical foot.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A. adu
B. In Xanadu
C. The line is one iambic metrical foot
D. Kubla Khan

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c. The line is one iambic metrical foot
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The answer is: C. The line is one iambic metrical foot

The iambic metrical foot is composed of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, for example: So LONG / as MEN / can BREATHE / or EYES / can SEE; here all the lowercase words are the unstressed syllables and the uppercase words are the stressed syllables, in this case it would be this way: in-XAN-a-DU-did-KU-bla-KHAN

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