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The line "Say that health and wealth have missed me" is an example of _____. iambic pentameter iambic tetrameter trochaic pentameter trochaic tetrameter

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trochaic tetrameter

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The answer is 'trochaic tetrameter'. Trochaic because trochee consists of a sequence of first stressed and then unstressed syllables: SAY that HEALTH and WEALTH have MISSED me - words in capital letters are stressed, the rest of them are unstressed.
Tetrameter means that there are 8 syllables. One meter = two syllables. And tetra, meaning four, must have 8 syllables.
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