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Analyze the foot of the following phrase.

by the light of the silvery moon
number of feet:
kind of feet:

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Hi, this line has 9 feet, and this would be an "anapest" - u u / u u / u u /, "u" being unstressed syllable, and "/" being stressed. Here the only stressed syllables are: "light", "sil-", and "moon". The rest of them are unstressed.
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