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Read this excerpt from The Iliad. With tame content, and thou possess’d of thine? Great as thou art, and like a god in fight, Think not to rob me of a soldier’s right. At thy demand shall I restore the maid? How many feet are in each line?

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There are ten syllables per line, but only every second syllable is accented (a "foot"). This makes five poetic "feet" per line.
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Without the specific lines from The Iliad, we cannot determine the number of feet in each line. If the lines were from Homer's Iliad, it's likely they would be in Dactylic Hexameter, which usually contains six feet per line.

The excerpt from The Iliad presents poetry that falls into a specific metrical pattern. To determine the number of feet in each line, one must scan the verse to identify the metric pattern such as iambic, trochaic, anapestic, or dactylic.

However, the question does not provide the necessary verse from The Iliad to perform scansion. Therefore, we cannot accurately count the feet without the specific lines in question.

Typically, lines in Homer's Iliad, which are in Dactylic Hexameter, would contain six feet per line.

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