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Identify the type of poetic foot used in each excerpt.

1. Iambic

2. Trochaic

3. Anapestic

4. Dactylic


By the shores of Gitche Gumee,

By the shining Big-Sea-Water,


(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

"Hiawatha’s Childhood")


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I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,


(William Wordsworth, "I Wandered

Lonely as a Cloud")


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"Forward, the Light Brigade!

Charge for the guns!" he said.


(Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The

Charge of the Light Brigade")


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The volcanoes are dim, and the

stars reel and swim,

When the whirlwinds my

banner unfurl.


(Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Cloud" )


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Answer(A) lambic

Explanation:I hope this helps

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