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Scan this line from Cowley's poem: "its hills bent low within my reach." How many feet does this line contain?

A. 6
B. 4
C. 5
D. 7

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The correct answer is B. 4. This is because a foot is a combination of an unstressed and a stressed syllable, and this being an tetrameter means that it has 4 feet.
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